Byeoksongjeong Pavilion

This pavilion was built after the Japanese invasions of 1592-1598 by local Confucian scholars to honour the spirit of Choe Chi-won, known by his pen name Go Un, and to educate Confucian students. It originally stood by the Anrimcheon Stream in front of Bongjin Village, a place Choe Chi-won is said to have often visited while residing at Haeinsa Temple on Gayasan Mountain. After being partly damaged in a great flood in 1920, however, it was relocated and rebuilt at its present site. Byeoksongjeong Pavilion faces southwest, set at the foot of Haksan, the hill behind Sinchon-ri Village. It is a single-eaved hip-and-gable-roofed building with three bays across the front and two bays in depth, raised on a two-tiered platform. The plan consists of a broad wooden floor spanning six bays, with no underfloor-heated room; all four sides are left open, and the floor is laid in the umaru style, with planks set directly onto a timber frame rather than resting on earth. The frame follows a five-purlin structure with cho-ikgong, a simple early bracket type, set on round columns resting on unhewn stone bases, while hwaban, flower-shaped decorative struts, are inserted between the crossbeam and the purlins above. The design follows the floor-centred pavilion style found in the western part of North Gyeongsang Province, close to the Honam region. Byeoksongjeong Pavilion preserves poems and writings by Choe Chi-won of Silla, as well as by Kim Goeng-pil and Jeong Yeo-chang of the Joseon period, attesting to the long history of the building.

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Where it is

Region

Goryeong, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료