Bingwoldang Hall

This shrine enshrines the spirit tablet of Gi Dae-seung (1527-1572), a civil official of early Joseon. He was a great master of Neo-Confucianism who drew the attention of scholarly circles by proposing new theories, and he is especially famous for his eight years of correspondence with his teacher Yi Hwang on the theory of the Four Beginnings and Seven Emotions (Sadan chiljeong). This building was originally the lecture hall of Wolbong Seowon, an academy that enshrined Gi Dae-seung at its centre together with Park Sang, Park Sun, Kim Jang-saeng, Kim Jip and other eminent officials of Joseon. Wolbong Seowon was founded in 1578, the eleventh year of King Seonjo, by Gi Dae-seung's eldest son Gi Hyo-seung to commemorate his father after his death, and King Jeongjo later gave this hall the name Bingwoldang. The building measures seven bays across the front and three bays along the side, with a hip-and-gable roof that forms the shape of the Chinese character 八 (eight) when seen from the side, and a narrow wooden veranda runs along the front and the right half-bay. Today, a shrine newly built in 1980, together with Jangpangak, a hall that stores the woodblocks of his writings, and the inner and outer three-bay gates, stand on a raised site facing west.

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Where it is

Region

Gwangsan-gu, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물