Yonggyejeong Pavilion and Deokdongsup Grove, Pohang

Yonggyejeong Pavilion (a Gyeongsangbuk-do Tangible Cultural Heritage) was built in 1546 and used as a private retreat by Jeong Mun-bu, who served as Bukpyeongsa, an inspector of military affairs on the northern frontier, during the Imjin War. His descendants maintained the pavilion and its garden across the generations, making it a representative byeolseo — a scholar's private retreat with pavilion and garden — of the Joseon period. It is a scenic site combining history and culture, where Deokdongsup, a grove planted at the village's water outlet according to traditional geomantic belief, blends well with the natural streams of Yeoneodae, Hamnyudae and Waryongdam. * In the mid-Joseon period this was a clan village of the Yeogang Yi family; it came to be called Deokdong, meaning 'village of virtue', because it was said to be inhabited by virtuous people.

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Where it is

Region

Pohang, Gyeongbuk

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Scenic Site · 명승