Dori Chuwondang Hall

This building is a jaesa, a memorial hall used for ancestral rites, built below the tomb of Kim Han-gyeong (1456–1552), art name Dogok-gong, the founding ancestor of the Uiseong Kim clan's settlement in Cheongsong. Its date of construction is not clearly known, but it is presumed to be an 18th-century building. Kim Han-gyeong was born in 1456, the second year of King Sejo, in Pungdeok, Gaeseong. He rose to the post of Jeyonggam-jeong, was inducted as a Jeongguk Meritorious Subject and appointed Jijungchubusa in 1506, the first year of King Jungjong. Afterwards, as the times grew turbulent, he moved to Dodong in Cheongsong and devoted the rest of his life to educating younger scholars. The building has five bays across the front and two bays on the side, with a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof; a broad wooden floor at the centre is flanked by ondol-heated rooms of two bays each on either side. In the room on the right hangs a plaque reading Saseongjae. With the memorial stele, the jaesa and the tomb arranged close together, the site forms a complete and well-ordered complex, and the window style seen on the floor side of Saseongjae is valuable material for the study of the history of changho, traditional door and window lattice work.

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Where it is

Region

Cheongsong, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산