At the start, monks' craftsmanship had been a way of ascetic practice, but after the thirteenth century, it became their professional career. Particularly the suppression from the government of the Joseon dynasty over the Buddhism intensified their outside working. In early period of the Joseon dynasty, most of the castles and palaces in the city had been built by government craftsmen and the monk-craftsmen had been chiefly engaged in the construction of Buddhist temples in mountains. However, as the government departments for the buildings were deteriorated, the monk-craftsmen worked not only for the civilian construction works, but also the government projects. In the eighteenth century, the civilian craftsmen and monk craftsmen were sharply divided as a result. We now saw through two monk-craftsmen Goenghoop and Kweyeon, that in the eighteenth century, the monk-craftsmen stretched their working territory throughout the nation, and they were also far superior to the civilian craftsmen as for the technical aspect. They had special and exclusive skills for Dancheong and carving that the civilian craftsmen did not have. The wooden architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth century of Korea has a unique history that it was built by the hands of the monks. It is one of the remarkable features of the wooden architecture and also very unusual development in the history of the East Asian wooden architecture. Consequently, it can be said that the carpentry works of the monk-craftsmen greatly contributed to the diversity of the wooden architecture of the East Asia.
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