Yeongbojeong Pavilion, Yeongam

Yeongbojeong Pavilion, a leading pavilion of the Yeongam region, was founded in the mid- or late fifteenth century — a period when rural society was being reorganised — by the Jeonju Choe and Geochang Sin clans who had settled here, was rebuilt around 1635 (the thirteenth year of King Injo) following the Imjin and Jeongyu wars (the Japanese invasions of 1592 and 1597), and has survived to the present through later repairs. Together with the neighbouring Jangamjeong Pavilion, it served as a meeting place for the donggye, a village mutual-aid compact, making it a rare surviving example of a hyangyak, or village-code, pavilion. As a village pavilion run by private individuals it is unusually large in scale, and as a pavilion it also has an unusually high floor unmatched elsewhere; its plan is distinctive in placing a separate room at the centre of the rear row. It further shows a graded variety in its architectural devices — the windows, doors and railings that distinguish the front, the two sides and the rear from one another — and in its ornament, including ikgong (bird-wing-shaped brackets), hwaban (decorative blocks set between the brackets to support the purlin plate) and daegong (members set on the ridge beam to support the ridge purlin), and so stands as important evidence in the history of the development of Korean pavilion architecture.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Treasure · 보물