Okcheon Confucian Academy

This is a Confucian academy (seowon) built to commemorate Kim Goeng-pil, pen name Hanhwondang (1454–1504), who was sacrificed in the Muo Sahwa, the literati purge of 1498, the fourth year of King Yeonsangun. Kim Goeng-pil was a scholar of the early Joseon period who studied under Kim Jong-jik from a young age; he later came to be known as one of the Five Worthies of Joseon, and after his death he was posthumously granted the post of Right State Councillor. The academy was first established in 1564, the nineteenth year of King Myeongjong, by the magistrate Yi Jeong, and in 1568, the first year of King Seonjo, it received a royal charter under the name "Okcheon Seowon" following a memorial submitted by Kim Gye, magistrate of Suncheon — the first such charter granted in Jeolla Province. Having once burned down in a fire, it was rebuilt by local Confucian scholars in 1928 and has remained in its present form since. The layout of the buildings is as follows: entering through Gyeonghyeonmun Gate, one finds the lecture hall Jibuidang, an inner gate, and the shrine called Okcheonsa. The shrine measures three kan across the front and one and a half kan to the side, with an open wooden veranda laid along the front. The roof is a gable roof, shaped like the character 人 (person) when viewed from the side. The lecture hall measures three kan across the front and two kan to the side; the centre is floored with a wooden hall and heated ondol rooms are set at either end, under a gable roof.

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Where it is

Region

Suncheon, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료