Mangmiru Pavilion

This pavilion is a gate tower built in 1742, the eighteenth year of King Yeongjo, by Kim Seok-il, magistrate of Dongnae, in front of the Dongheon, the government hall of Dongnae County. A story is told that a certain magistrate of Dongnae who had come from Hanyang (present-day Seoul) named the pavilion 'Mangmiru' ('Pavilion for Gazing toward the Cherished One'), a classical poetic term for the king, to console his longing for the sovereign in the capital. It is said that the March First Movement in Dongnae in 1919 began with three cheers of 'manse' ('long live [Korea]') shouted from this pavilion. On the front hangs a large horizontal signboard reading 'Dongnae Doho Amun' (Office Gate of the Dongnae Protectorate), and on the rear hangs another large signboard reading 'Mangmiru'. When Dongnae Protectorate was elevated to the seat of the Dongnae Provincial Governor's Office in 1895, the thirty-second year of Emperor Gojong, the pavilion also came to be known as Pojeongsa. A large drum is said to have hung in the pavilion, struck to announce the opening times of the four gates of Dongnaeseong, the walled town of Dongnae, and to mark noon. During the Japanese colonial period, it was relocated, under an urban reorganisation plan, to its present site, which has no historical connection to the building. The building is three bays wide and two bays deep, and rests on tall stone column bases. It is a two-storey pavilion with a hipped-and-gabled roof, and its bracket style is the two-winged (i-ikgong) type. The floor is a gwitteul-maru (a log-frame floor), surrounded by a gyeja balustrade, a railing with curved posts. The eaves are double eaves fitted with buyeon, supplementary rafters. This pavilion is a typical government-office gate tower of the late Joseon period and a representative building of the Busan region.

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Where it is

Region

Dongnae-gu, Busan

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산