Oseongjeong Pavilion

This pavilion is said to have first been built in 1627, the fifth year of King Injo of Joseon. The present building is said to have been moved here and rebuilt in 1927, using part of the Gangneung Guest House, by an age-mates' association (donggapgye) of people born in the jeongmyo year (1867). Originally, when Song Gwang-yeon came to Gangneung in 1666, the seventh year of King Hyeonjong, he built a small house below the pavilion and would climb up to it to spend his mornings and evenings. In the troubled final years of Joseon, righteous army volunteers gathered here to fight Japanese troops. It is also a historic site containing a monument commemorating the souls of 222 members of the Korean Youth Corps who died fighting the communist forces during the Korean War, and the graves of three students who died fighting bravely the day before the recapture of Seoul. The building is a single-storey structure of four bays in total, T-shaped in plan, fitted only with a floor and a railing and no walls. Twelve wooden plaques hang inside the pavilion, and outside hangs a plaque reading 'Oseongjeong', written by Haegang Kim Gyu-jin and Seokdun-geosa. Oseongjeong is a precious building, one that holds together the sorrow of the people who had lost their nation and their silent yearning for the restoration of sovereignty, as it stood in 1927.

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Where it is

Region

Gangneung, Gangwon

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산