Sammaedang Hall

Sammaedang Hall was built as a byeolseo, a private country retreat, by Bak Gye-rip, who had served as a chalbang (a post-station official), in 1644, the twenty-second year of King Injo, at a site roughly ten ri south of Hoedeok county seat with a view of Gigukjeong Pavilion. The Joseon-period Hoedeok County Gazetteer also records Sammaedang: it states that "Sammaedang is in Gayang-ri, ten ri south of the county seat, facing Gigukjeong Pavilion at Soje; it is the byeolseo of Bak Gye-rip, who served as chalbang." The building was later repaired in 1876, the thirteenth year of Emperor Gojong and the year Korea's ports were opened, by Bak Jae-jeong, Bak Gye-rip's seventh-generation descendant, and repaired again in 1891, the twenty-eighth year of Emperor Gojong, by the eighth-generation descendant Bak Yun-seok. Fearing flood damage, the ninth-generation descendant Bak Tae-heung moved it to its present site in 1930. The building measures 3 kan (a kan being the standard bay-width unit of traditional Korean architecture) across the front and 1.5 kan at the side, with a hip-and-gable roof, double eaves, and a five-beam (oryang) frame. The front half-kan forms an open veranda, or toenmaru, and balustrades are fitted on either side of the eave bay, excluding the central bay. As the family had once studied under Song Si-yeol, known by his pen name Uam, Song Si-yeol himself wrote and sent both the plaque inscribed "Sammaedang" and a set of verses titled "The Eight Views of Sammaedang."

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Where it is

Region

Dong-gu, Daejeon

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료