Geochang Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo was a local educational institution established in the administrative units of bu, mok, gun and hyeon; with the founding of the Joseon dynasty, the state made active efforts to improve and spread such schools. Geochang Local Confucian School was founded in 1415, the fifteenth year of King Taejong of Joseon, to enshrine and hold memorial rites for the tablets of virtuous Confucian scholars and to educate and morally instruct the people of the region. Daeseongjeon was established in 1415; it was rebuilt in 1572 by the magistrate Seo Ui, and in 1574 the magistrate Jang Mun-han built Myeongnyundang. The school later burned down in the Japanese invasions of 1592–1598; Daeseongjeon was rebuilt in 1623, and Chunpungnu Pavilion was built in 1715. In 1748 the chief administrator Kim Cheon-bun relocated the school to its present site, and it has survived to the present through several rounds of repair. The surviving buildings are Daeseongjeon, Myeongnyundang, the east and west dormitories (Dongjae and Seojae), Chunpungnu, and the caretakers' quarters. Daeseongjeon, three bays wide at the front and two bays deep, has a gable roof and enshrines the tablets of the Five Sages, the Six Worthies of Song China, and the Eighteen Sages of Korea. Chunpungnu is a timber-framed, tile-roofed building three bays wide and two bays deep with a hipped-and-gabled roof; Myeongnyundang is five bays wide and two bays deep with a gable roof; and Dongjae and Seojae are each five bays wide and two bays deep, also with gable roofs.

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Region

Geochang, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산