Bongseojeong Pavilion ∙ Do Chon-byeol Tomb, Hapcheon

Bongseojeong Pavilion was built in 1623, the first year of King Injo of Joseon, by Ogye Jo Jeong-rip to cultivate talented individuals. Bongseojeong Pavilion and Do Chon-byeol Tomb stand side by side on a north-south axis, enclosed within a boundary of stone walls. Bongseojeong Pavilion has a front of four bays and a side of two bays, with a hipped-and-gabled roof (paljakjibung) whose silhouette resembles the character 八 (eight). From left to right it is arranged as an ondol (heated-floor) room, a two-bay daecheong (wooden-floored hall), and another ondol room, with a narrow wooden veranda (toenmaru) running along the front throughout. Unusually, it has neither a railing nor a kitchen, making it similar to the straight-line commoners' houses of the southern region. Do Chon-byeol Tomb is a shrine dedicated to Do Chon Jo Eung-in and his son, Jo Jeong-rip. It has a front of three bays and a side of two bays, with a gable roof (matbaejibung) whose silhouette resembles the character 人 (person), and stands behind Bongseojeong Pavilion. With the study hall in front and the shrine behind, the layout is more characteristic of a seowon, a Confucian academy for honouring ancestors and pursuing scholarship, than of a pavilion for resting body and mind amid nature.

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Where it is

Region

Hapcheon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산