Dongnae Bu Government Office Oedaemun Gate

This gate is the site that best shows the military importance of Dongnae during the late Joseon period. In the late Joseon period, Dongnae lay close to Japan, which made it an important place for national defence and diplomacy. Because of this it had more government offices than other towns, and they were larger in scale. The gate is presumed to have first been built in 1636, the fourteenth year of King Injo, when Magistrate Jeong Yang-pil built the Dongnae Government Office. It was subsequently rebuilt several times, and the present building was rebuilt in 1870, the seventh year of Emperor Gojong, by Magistrate Jeong Hyeon-deok. Originally the main gate of the Dongnae Government Office, standing behind Mangmiru Pavilion, it was moved during the Japanese colonial period, when the town was reorganised, into Geumgang Park, a place with no historical connection to it. On 15 August 2014 it was moved again, to its present site within the grounds of the Dongnae Government Office. The gate marks the fact that in 1655, the sixth year of King Hyojong, military command of Dongnae was separated from the Gyeongju Garrison Command, which had been under the direction of the Gyeongsang Jwabyeongyeong (the Left Gyeongsang Provincial Army Garrison), and became the independent Dongnae Garrison. On the pillars below, to left and right, hang horizontal boards reading "Jinbyeon Byeongma Jeoljeyeong" and "Gyorin Yeonhyang Seonwisa". Their meaning is that Dongnae served as the military command post for frontier defence, and as the government office that received Japanese envoys in diplomatic dealings with Japan. This gate is a typical government-office gate surviving in our region. Though small in scale, it is an unusual example of a three-gate structure. It has a frontage of three bays and a depth of one bay. The roof is of the sotdaemun type, with its central section raised above the two side sections, and the eaves are single eaves. The presence of a hongsal, a row of red-painted wooden bars, set beneath the ceiling suggests that the gate was originally an oesammun, an outer three-gate structure.

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Where it is

Region

Dongnae-gu, Busan

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산