Buchunjeong Pavilion Garden

Buchunjeong is a pavilion built in 1598 (the 31st year of King Seonjo) by Mun Hui-gae, a scholar who had distinguished himself during the Japanese invasions of 1592 and 1597, after he returned to his hometown. It was originally named Cheongyeongjeong, after Mun Hui-gae's pen name, but was later changed to Buchunjeong. The building has three bays across the front and two bays to the side, comprising two bays of ondol (heated-floor) rooms and two bays of daecheong (open wooden-floored hall), flanked front and back by a half-bay-wide porch. The roof is a hip-and-gable (paljak) roof, whose sides form the shape of the character 八 (eight). On a rock submerged in the water below the cliff on which the pavilion stands, the characters 龍湖 (Yongho, meaning 'Dragon Lake'), said to have been written by Baek Gwang-hun (pen name Okbong), are carved. Buchunjeong Pavilion Garden is designated and managed as a Monument for its outstanding beauty, in harmony with the surrounding pine forest.

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Where it is

Region

Jangheung, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물