Bang (Korean)
{{Short description|Korean word meaning "room"}}
{{Italic title}}{{for|the Korean surname|Bang (surname)}}
{{Infobox Korean name/auto|hangul=방|hanja=房|image=KoreanalleryBritishMuseum1.jpg|caption=Traditional Korean sarangbang (study room). Exterior, in the British Museum Department of Asia.}}
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Bang ({{Korean|hangul=방}}) is a Korean word meaning "room". In a traditional Korean house, a sarangbang is the study or drawing room, for example.{{Cn|date=March 2024}}
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), manhwabang (a manhwa room, where people read or borrow manhwa) 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.{{Cn|date=March 2024}}
Phonetically more tensed word ppang ({{Korean|hangul=빵|labels=no}}) is used as an abbreviation of a noun gambang ({{Korean|hangul=감방|hanja=監房|rr=kambang|labels=no}}), meaning "jail".
Multibang
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Multibang is a kind of entertainment venue in South Korea where people can play video games and board games. In addition, they can eat snacks, drink non-alcoholic beverages, sing, and watch films.{{cite web|url=http://travel.cnn.com/seoul/play/evolution-korean-bang-culture-937553|title=Evolution of Korean 'bang' culture|last=S Kwaak|first=Jeyup|date=19 July 2011|website=travel.cnn.com|access-date=2015-10-15}}
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References
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- {{cite web|accessdate=2005-06-16|
url=http://www.korean-pavilion.or.kr/04pavilion/e_2004_02.htm|
author=|
title=City of the Bang|
work=Ninth Architecture Biennial of Venice 2004}}
- {{cite web
|accessdate = 2005-06-16
|url = http://justahakwon.com/english/korea_bang.asp
|title = "Bang" Culture
|work = Just a Hakwon
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050427010217/http://www.justahakwon.com/english/korea_bang.asp
|archive-date = 2005-04-27
|url-status = dead
}}
- {{cite web|accessdate=2005-06-16|
url=http://www.asien-zuhause.ch/Korea_Allgemein/Sarangbang.htm|
author=Roman and Daniela Jost|
title=Sarangbang (Sarang-bang, Sarang Chae, Anchae) Korean Men's and women's quarters |
work=Traditional Korean and Japanese furniture}}
- {{cite web
|accessdate=2005-06-16
|url=http://www.koreanfolk.co.kr/folk/english/03/b10.htm
|title=Korean Housing
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050206065511/http://www.koreanfolk.co.kr/folk/english/03/b10.htm
|archivedate=2005-02-06
|url-status=live
}}