Yeongwol-bu Government Office

The Yeongwol Guest House, Gwanpungheon and Jagyuru are said to be where King Danjong, the sixth king of Joseon, spent the final seventeen years of his short life after being exiled here and demoted to Prince Nosan. In 1457, the third year of King Sejo, Danjong, by then demoted to Prince Nosan, was exiled to Cheongnyeongpo in Yeongwol. When a flood struck, he moved his residence to Gwanpungheon, then the east wing hall of the Yeongwol-bu Guest House, and used it as his sleeping quarters. He is said to have often climbed Jagyuru Pavilion (then called Maejungnu) and composed poems steeped in the grief and sorrow of a young king driven from the throne. In September 1457, when Geumseong Daegun and others, exiled to Sunheung in Gyeongsang-do, were discovered attempting to restore Danjong to the throne, King Sejo, to remove any future threat, ordered Danjong to take poison, and Danjong died at Gwanpungheon on the 24th day of the tenth month. It is said that Eom Heung-do, the local clerk (hojang), retrieved his body and buried it at the foot of Dongeulji, the site of present-day Jangneung Royal Tomb. Later, in 1698, the 24th year of King Sukjong, Danjong was posthumously restored to the status of king and Jangneung Royal Tomb was built at state expense. In 1791, the 15th year of King Jeongjo, Baesikdan, an altar enshrining the spirit tablets of the Sayuksin (the Six Martyred Ministers) and other officials who had remained loyal to Danjong, was established. The Guest House of the Yeongwol-bu government office is said to have been founded in 1396, the fifth year of King Taejo, and records show it was rebuilt in 1791, the 15th year of King Jeongjo. Gwanpungheon, the east wing hall of the guest house, has a five-bay front; the west wing hall has a four-bay front, the central main hall three bays, and Jagyuru is a pavilion building with a three-bay front and a two-bay side. Excavations in 2013 and 2015 confirmed building foundations, stone-paved (bakseok) areas and the site of the inner triple gate, together with a paved walkway running from the guest house to the inner triple gate, and a further walkway linking Gwanpungheon to Jagyuru, matching the layout shown in the Woljungdo, a painted record designated a treasure. This confirms that the Yeongwol-bu government office has kept its site and buildings intact from its late-Joseon reconstruction to the present day, and that it holds outstanding historic value as a place bound up, by record, with the story of King Danjong.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongwol, Gangwon

Designation

Historic Site · 사적