The garden's landscaping elements include a promenade composed of flowers and trees, stone pillars, stairs, and bridges, architectural facilities such as doors, fences, chimneys, and jangdokdae, as well as ponds, waterfalls, and stone objects. Hanoks are often arranged on a slope with a low front and a high back side, so usually the front is left empty as a courtyard, and the back is trimmed with steps and decorated with a staircase garden or flower arrangements.

In the backing of the hanok, a wall that has an independent Ondol stovepipe is decorated to form a unique and intimate landscape. An arbor refers to both tower and pavilion. In the palace, a tower was built on the nature of the back garden or artificially created nature to create a splendid landscape. In the house, a pond and trees were decorated around the upper floor to decorate the scenery. Representative palace gardens include Gyeongju Gyerim, Anapji, and Changdeokgung back gardens, and Damyang Soswaewon for nobleman garden.