Gyeongsanggamyeong Provincial Office Site, Daegu

In the Joseon period, provincial governors (gwanchalsa) were dispatched to each province to oversee local administration, and the Gyeongsang Provincial Office in Daegu was the office that governed Gyeongsang-do in the late Joseon period and served as the governor's residence. From the reign of King Taejong through the early Joseon period, Gyeongsang-do had no separate provincial office (gamyeong, the office in which a province's governor resided during the Joseon period); instead the governor made regular circuits (sullyeok, the Joseon-period system by which a governor toured and inspected the towns of his province). In the 34th year of King Seonjo (1601), a provincial office was established in Daegu, and from then on the governor conducted state affairs there. The Gyeongsanggamyeong Provincial Office Site in Daegu is valued as a site that vividly illustrates the layout of provincial offices across the eight provinces after the Japanese invasions of 1592-1598, since Seonhwadang and Jingcheonggak, the central buildings of the Gyeongsang Provincial Office, remain well preserved in their original positions, and excavation has confirmed the extent of the site.

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Where it is

Region

Jung-gu, Daegu

Designation

Historic Site · 사적