Palgwaejeong Pavilion

Palgwaejeong is a pavilion built in 1626, the fourth year of King Injo, by Song Si-yeol (pen name Uam, 1607–1689) as a place to commemorate Yi Hwang and Yi I while pursuing scholarship and teaching his disciples. It is said that when his teacher Kim Jang-saeng built Imnijeong Pavilion nearby and began lecturing there, Song Si-yeol, wishing to stay close to his teacher, built Palgwaejeong 150 metres away. The building faces south towards the Geumgang River and, with three bays across the front and two bays to the side, is roofed with a double-eaved hipped-and-gabled (paljak) roof, showing the representative architectural style of mid-Joseon pavilions. The left two bays form a wooden-floored hall (daecheong), and the right bay is an ondol-heated room. Inside the pavilion hang wooden boards inscribed with various poems and writings, and on the rock behind it remain characters said to have been carved by Song Si-yeol himself, reading 'Cheongchoam' (靑草岩) and 'Monggwaebyeok' (夢掛壁). Nearby stand Imnijeong Pavilion and Jungnim Seowon, a Confucian academy, showing that this area served as an important space for Confucian scholarship and teaching in the Joseon period.

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Where it is

Region

Nonsan, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산