[Illustration: Korean Girls Ironing Clothes.]
The houses in Korea are one or two stories high. They are made of wood
or clay, and sometimes the roofs are of straw. The windows are high,
and the doors are often so low that the people have to stoop down to go
in. The rooms are very small and have hardly any furniture. There are
no chairs. The people sit on mats on the floor. The walls between the
rooms are made of paper, and the floor is made of stone.
[Illustration: Korean Houses.]
They have a strange way of heating their houses. They have no stoves
or fireplaces. But under the floor they have a cellar like an oven.
In this cellar a fire is always kept, and the rooms are sometimes so
hot that the people can hardly walk on the stone floors.
People who are poor sleep on mats on the floor. They sleep in their
clothes. People who are rich have mattresses. The mattresses are laid
on the floor at night, and are taken up in the morning.
The people of Korea eat a great deal of rice. But they have other
kinds of food. They have meat and fish and eggs and also fruit. You
would think that they would use a great deal of tea, as they live so
near China.
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