Unseojeong Pavilion

Unseojeong Pavilion was built in 1928, at a cost of 300 seok of rice (a traditional Korean unit of volume) at the time, by Kim Seung-hui (1892–1958), son of the royal secretary Kim Yang-geun (1858–1926), in order to commemorate his father's virtuous memory. Along the gently sloping southern incline, retaining walls were built up to create platforms, and the buildings were arranged on top of them. Passing through Gajeongmun Gate, a raised gate fitted with an upper-floor pavilion, and climbing the steps beyond, one finds the Dongjae (east hall) and Seojae (west hall) arranged to the left and right, with Unseojeong Pavilion itself standing on a further platform beyond. Unseojeong Pavilion is four bays across the front and three bays deep, built in the jusimpo style, a bracket style with brackets set only above the columns, with twenty wooden pillars resting on stone bases. At the four corners of the hipped-and-gabled roof, the eaves rafters are supported by hwalju (corner support posts), which are in turn supported by elaborately carved stone hwalju bases. On the front of the pavilion, two dragons are placed to either side of the signboard reading Unseojeong, facing outward, while on the main crossbeam over the hall's wooden floor, two dragons are carved facing one another with their bodies draped over the beam. Kim Yang-geun's courtesy name was Sa-seong and his pen name Uncho; he was the grandson of Kim Gi-jong, who is commemorated in the Filial Piety Stele and Wooden Plaques of Kim Bok-gyu and Kim Gi-jong, itself designated as a heritage item. His second son, Kim Seung-hui, observed the three-year mourning rites in full when his father died in 1926, and stood firm against the Japanese colonial police's forced head-shaving campaign. Over the course of two years he built the pavilion and named it Unseojeong, and he gathered the ancestral memorial steles that had previously stood scattered in various places, erecting them beside the pavilion.

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Where it is

Region

Imsil, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산