Bangujeong Pavilion

Bangujeong is a pavilion built on a hill beside the Imjingang River, where Hwang Hui (1363–1452), a civil official of the Joseon period, spent his remaining years after retiring from office. Because it stood close to Nakhajin, a ferry crossing nearby, it was first called Nakhajeong, but it came to be known as Bangujeong — meaning "to play together with the gulls" — after the gulls that filled the area along the Imjingang River. In a text titled Bangujeonggi, written by Heo Mok, a scholar of the mid-Joseon period, the pavilion is beautifully described: "The pavilion stands 15 ri (a traditional distance unit) west of Paju, below the Imjingang River, and at every tide the white gulls gather over the river and fill the sandy fields of the plain." Bangujeong was entirely destroyed by fire during the Korean War. It was afterwards partially restored by Hwang Hui's descendants, and in 1998 it was rebuilt anew as part of a project to restore the historic site. It now stands within the Hwang Hui Historic Site in Samok-ri, Munsan-eup, Paju, alongside a memorial hall, a portrait shrine, and the Angjidae pavilion. The building measures two bays across the front and two bays to the side. Its roof is a hipped pyramidal roof with double eaves, topped at its peak with a jeolbyeongtong, a gourd-shaped ornamental roof-tile finial.

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Where it is

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Paju, Gyeonggi

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료