Gyeongijeong Pavilion

Gyeongijeong Pavilion is a government office building erected outside the walled town of Taean, used as a place where Chinese envoys arriving at Anheung Port would rest, and where the defence commissioner (bangeosa) issued military orders. The name "Gyeongi" (憬夷), meaning "be wary of the barbarians," is thought to reflect conditions in the Taean region, which suffered severe damage from Japanese pirate raids from the end of the Goryeo period onward. Later, as pirate raids gradually declined and the pavilion came to be used as a resting place for Chinese envoys, its meaning is said to have shifted to "wishing safe passage for envoys at sea." Every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, residents and the defence commissioner held a joint rite praying for peace and stability, but this was discontinued in 1907; from 1925 to 1927, during the Japanese colonial period, the building was used as a night school for local residents. It was later used as a resting place for the elderly, and was repaired in 1988 to take on its present form. The building measures three bays across the front and three along the side, with a hipped-and-gabled (paljak) roof that, seen from the side, resembles the character for "eight" (八). Although there is evidence of repeated rebuilding, it still retains the architectural style of a Joseon-period government office, giving it value as a historical record.

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Where it is

Region

Taean, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산