Manchwijeong Pavilion

Manchwijeong is a pavilion built around 1572, the fifth year of King Seonjo, by Kim Wi (1532–1595) of the Gyeongju Kim clan. It is a wooden building with a tiled hip-and-gable roof, measuring three bays across the front and three bays deep; the left two bays contain rooms and the right bay a wooden floor, with narrow verandas at the front and back. Kim Wi was the seventh-generation descendant of Gyerim-gun Kim Gyun, a meritorious subject who had helped found the Joseon dynasty. Born in 1532, he passed the civil service examination in 1558, the thirteenth year of King Myeongjong, rose to the post of jeongnang in the Ministry of Rites, and from 1562, the seventeenth year of King Myeongjong, served as magistrate of Hapcheon and eight other counties, governing well in each. In 1580, the thirteenth year of King Seonjo, when the Ming Chinese envoy Seo Gye-sin visited Korea, Kim Wi received him as a yeongwisa, an official sent to greet and console visiting envoys, and on this occasion he received calligraphy for the name Manchwijeong, which was made into the pavilion's signboard. Kim Wi took Manchwi as his pen name, meaning the green of plants and trees that does not fade even in winter. A board of presented poems exchanged with figures such as Jeong Cheol (pen name Songgang), Gi Dae-seung (pen name Gobong) and Im Je (pen name Baekho) is also displayed there.

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Where it is

Region

Imsil, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산