Yonggangseowon Confucian Academy

This is a seowon (Confucian academy) built to commemorate Hakpo Yang Paeng-son and Jangchun Yang Sin-yong. Yang Paeng-son (1488–1545) passed the state examination in 1516, the eleventh year of King Jungjong, and entered government service, but was dismissed during the Gimyo Purge of 1519, a purge of reform-minded scholars, and returned to his hometown of Neungju. At that time he had extensive contact with Jo Gwang-jo, who had been exiled to Neungju. Skilled in both writing and painting, he was active as one of the rising young scholars of the day. Yang Sin-yong, a great-grandson of Yang Paeng-son, served as a dohobusa, a local magistrate, and died while praying for the recovery of national sovereignty lost in the Manchu invasion of 1636. Yonggangseowon was first built as a shrine in Jungheung-ri, Haeryong-myeon, in 1821, the twenty-first year of King Sunjo. It was closed in 1868, the fifth year of Emperor Gojong, when Heungseon Daewongun ordered the abolition of seowon academies, and was restored on its present site in 1970 under the name 'Yonggangseowon'. In layout, passing through the outer gate, Jichunmun, one finds the lecture hall bearing a plaque reading 'Yonggangseowon', with the east and west study halls on either side. Behind this stands the inner gate, Ijeongmun, and beyond that the shrine Nakcheonsa. Nakcheonsa measures three bays across the front and one and a half bays to the side, with a gabled roof that, seen from the side, forms the shape of the Chinese character 人 (person). Inside, the ancestral tablets of Yang Paeng-son, as the central figure, and Yang Sin-yong are enshrined, and memorial rites are said to be held every year in the second and eighth lunar months.

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Where it is

Region

Suncheon, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료