Gyeonghaengjae Hall, Changwon

Gyeonghaengjae Hall was built in 1867, the fourth year of Emperor Gojong, as a branch of Hoegye Seowon, a Confucian academy belonging to the Andong Gwon clan of the Changwon region. It was first used both as a shrine hall for ancestral rites and as a study hall for classical Chinese learning, but with the onset of the Japanese colonial period in 1910 it became Gyeonghaeng School, a private school. By providing new-style education to the region, it became a wellspring of the national independence movement and produced many patriotic figures, among them Yi Gyo-jae, who served in the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai and died for the cause, and Gwon Yeong-jo, a leading figure in the Samjin district during the March First Movement of 1919. After the school closed in 1927, the building has continued to serve as a local cultural facility. The roof is a hipped-and-gabled (paljak) roof, shaped like the figure 八 when viewed from the side. Repairs carried out in 1988 enlarged the floor, but the building's exterior has otherwise remained largely unchanged to this day.

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Where it is

Region

Changwon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료