Gyeongyuldang Hall, Okcheon

Gyeongyuldang was built in 1736, the 12th year of King Yeongjo of Joseon, by Jeon Hu-hoe, the 47th-generation descendant of Jeon Seop, the founding ancestor of the Yongung Jeon clan. Admiring the learning and virtue of the scholar Yulgok, he took Gyeongyul as his own pen name and gave the same name, Gyeongyuldang, to his private academy. It served as a place for his descendants' scholarly training and moral cultivation, and produced many outstanding talents. The building has four bays across the front and two bays on the side, with a hip-and-gable roof — so called for its side profile resembling the character for eight (八) — and a wooden floor on all four sides, showing the typical structural form of a seodang. A roof-tile at the end of the ridge bears the inscription "Yongjeong 30-nyeon eulyu" (the year eulyu of the 30th year of the Yongzheng reign), indicating that the building dates from the 1730s. Today it is used every year for the ancestral rites of the Jeon clan.

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Where it is

Region

Okcheon, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산