Bang (Korean)

Bang is a romanization of the Korean word 방, meaning 'room'. In a traditional Korean house, a sarangbang (Hangul: 사랑방; Hanja: <span lang="KO">舍廊房</span>) is the man's study or drawing room, for example.

In modern Korea (especially in the South), the concept of a bang has expanded and diversified from being merely a walled segment in a domestic space, to including buildings or enterprises in commercial, urban, space, such as a PC bang (an internet café), a noraebang (a karaoke room), sojubang (a soju room, i.e. a pub), manwhabang ("manwha room", where people read or borrow manwha) and a jjimjilbang (elaborate Korean public bathhouse). This can be compared with the similar expansion of the concept of a 'house' to include upper houses, opera houses, coffee houses, and publishing houses.



Phonetically more tensed word ppang(빵) is used as an abbreviation of a noun gambangGenerally it is pronounced as kkamppang (Hangeul: 깜빵).; McCune-Reischauer: kambang), meaning 'jail'.

Gallery

<gallery>Image:KoreanalleryBritishMuseum1.jpg|Traditional Korean Sarangbang (Study room) Exterior, in the British Museum Department of AsiaImage:KoreanGalleryBritishMuseum3.jpg|Traditional Korean Sarangbang (Study room) Interior, in the British Museum Department of Asia</gallery>

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