Jiksanhyeon Government Office <nae Government Office .oe Government Office .nae Sammun Gate .oe Sammun Gate >

This was the local government office of Jiksanhyeon during the Joseon period. Four buildings stand along an axis tilted slightly east of due south: from north to south, the Naedongheon (Inner Government Office), the Oedongheon (Outer Government Office), the Naesammun (Inner Sammun Gate) and the Oesammun (Outer Sammun Gate). The Oesammun, at the very front, is the main gate of the office, a two-storey building three bays (kan, the traditional unit of measurement between columns) wide and two bays deep. Each of the three ground-floor bays has its own door leading through to the government office, while the upper floor has a wooden-floored hall. A signboard reading 'Hoseo Gyesu Amun,' denoting its rank as the leading county office of the Hoseo (Chungcheong) region, hangs in the central bay. Beyond the Oesammun, in front of the government office, stands the Naesammun, nine bays wide and one bay deep, with a raised solit-daemun gate in its central bay flanked by storerooms of three and five bays. Inside the Naesammun stands the Oedongheon, where the county magistrates conducted official business: a building seven bays wide and three bays deep, whose central four bays form a large wooden-floored hall flanked by ondol-heated rooms. It was later used as a township office and was restored to its original appearance in 1990-1991. The innermost building, the Naedongheon, was the magistrate's private residence, four bays wide and two bays deep, with ondol rooms and an attached wooden floor across the three bays on the right and a kitchen in the single bay on the left. The Yeojidoseo, an eighteenth-century geographical gazetteer, records the names of many buildings once on the site — a nineteen-bay Guest House, a six-bay armoury, a fourteen-bay government office, a thirty-bay inner residence and others — but today only these four late Joseon buildings survive.

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Where it is

Region

Cheonan, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산