Yeongpaljeong Pavilion

Yeongpaljeong is a pavilion built in 1406, the sixth year of King Taejong of Joseon, by Yu Gwan (pen name Hajeong, 1346–1433), a civil official active from the end of Goryeo into the early Joseon period, who was so moved by the surrounding scenery that he had his son Maengmun build it. It was originally called Mojeong, taking the character "mo" from the village of Mosan-ri and the character "jeong" from Hajeong, his pen name, but was later renamed Yeongpaljeong after Yulgok Yi I, Go Gyeong-myeong, Nam I-gong, Yu Sang-un and others composed a set of eight poems on the surrounding views. Other than repairs made in 1689, the fifteenth year of King Sukjong, by Yu Sang-un, who by then had served as chief state councillor, no further history of repair is known. The pavilion measures three kan across the front and two kan to the side (a kan being the traditional unit of a single bay between pillars), and its roof, seen from the side, takes the shape of the character for "eight" (八), a form known as a paljak (hipped-and-gabled) roof. The interior is a square, open on all four sides with no rooms or walls, the floor is a raised wooden "well" floor, and a railing is fitted only on the right-hand side. Yeongpaljeong served as a place of learning that produced many notable figures over a long period, and as a building where villagers held their gatherings, giving it great historical value.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물