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An agungi () is a firebox found in traditional Korean kitchens which is used to burn firewood or other fuel for cooking. It is also a part of the traditional floor heating system, or ondol. The flat cooktop counter or hearth installed over the agungi is called a buttumak (부뚜막).
Many Korean agrarian kitchens had buttumak with charcoal-fueled agungi until the early 1970s.
Above each agungi is an upward opening where gamasot (big pot or cauldron used on agungi) can be set onto the buttumak. A kitchen may have buttumak with multiple agungi holes and upward openings, or a single agungi hole and a single upward opening. Each agungi can be covered with an iron plate or door to control the fire.
Agungi and buttumak are among the main components of the traditional ondol (floor heating) system. Vents in the back of agungi are opened on cold days to allow the smoke and hot air flow through the underneath ondol rooms and exit into the chimney at the other end of the house.
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