Seongju Baeksegak Pavilion

Seongju Baeksegak Pavilion was built by Song Hui-gyu (1494–1558), a civil official of the early Joseon period; construction began in the sixth year of King Myeongjong, 1551, and was completed the following year. A legend is passed down that at midnight on rainy days the sound of horses' hooves rings out so loudly that only the eldest grandson of the founding line, and no one else, can sleep without fear. The pavilion once held one piece each of calligraphy in the hand of Yi Yulgok, Han Seokbong and Chae Beonam, but Han Seokbong's piece was stolen in 1970. It measures seven bays across the front and seven bays to the side, its floor plan forming the shape of the character ㅁ, and its roof is a gable roof whose roofline, seen from the side, resembles the character 人, meaning person. The building is unusual in that no iron nails were used at all, holes instead being drilled and the frame bound together with bundled bush-clover branches, and in that the timber was dressed not with a plane but with another tool, an adze. During the Japanese colonial period it is said to have been the place where a petition for independence was copied, and it was the site where, in 1919, a group of Confucian scholars gathered to hand over a written petition intended for the Paris Peace Conference, a place with a long history connected also to the March First Independence Movement.

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Where it is

Region

Seongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산