Go King Rok of Dongnae Local Confucian School

The Gowangnok of Dongnae Local Confucian School contains transcribed excerpts of 95 documents relating to the school, dating from between 1782 and 1900. It includes various records of construction work, circular letters, supplementary records, transcribed copies, reports, petitions, prayer texts, ridge-raising texts, separate records, document lists, memorials submitted to the authorities, directives, notices and regulations, all concerning Dongnae Local Confucian School. Its main contents are the circulars sent to the school by the local Confucian community, documents relating to the school's relocation, records entered at the request that a particular family's documents be added to the Gowangnok, the school's financial regulations, and rules on the election and status of the school's administrators (gyoim). It comprises records of the repair and reconstruction of Dongnae Local Confucian School, together with circulars, petitions and regulations; in particular, records relating to the school's relocation in 1784 make up the great majority of the contents. This material serves as the basic historical source for the study of the Confucian school in the Dongnae region in the late Joseon period, and, besides being important for the study of the school itself, it is also a highly valuable source for research into the local gentry (hyangban) involved in local affairs in Dongnae — a first-rate source of high value for the study of Confucian schools and local government offices (hyangcheong) in the late Joseon period. As the sole surviving manuscript copy of this material, it is also of great bibliographic value, and it serves as basic material for the study of the local and regional history of Busan (Dongnae) and of local education. Given that almost no other Confucian-school records survive today, the designation of the Gowangnok of Dongnae Local Confucian School as a Busan Metropolitan City tangible cultural heritage item, and the preservation of the original, is considered highly meaningful.

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Where it is

Region

Nam-gu, Busan

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산