Imgyeongdang Hall

Imgyeongdang Hall is the detached quarters (byeoldang) of Kim Yeol. Kim Yeol, known by his pen name Imgyeongdang, lived at the same time as Yi Yulgok (1536–1584) and was renowned for his learning and virtuous conduct. Yulgok, who was on close terms with him, highly praised Imgyeongdang for living a life of frugal integrity while planting and tending pine trees around his house, and even wrote him the Hosongseol ("An Essay on Protecting Pines") as a gift. The hall measures three kan across the front and two kan along the side, and has an ornate hip-and-gable roof (paljak roof) whose side profile resembles the Chinese character for "eight" (八). Built against a backdrop of pine forest, on a two-tiered platform of long dressed stones (jangdaeseok), the hall takes its name from Kim Yeol's pen name. The square, courtyard-plan house standing behind Imgyeongdang Hall is the main house, and together with the hall it has undergone repeated repairs to reach its present form. Inside the building hang wooden plaques inscribed with Yulgok's Hosongseol and with the Songeosi ("Trout Poem"), a poem that Kim Yeol composed himself.

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Where it is

Region

Gangneung, Gangwon

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산