Yeongpajeong Pavilion

This pavilion was built by Yi An (1414-?), who took the pen name Yeongpa, after he resigned his official post and retired to the countryside in 1455, the first year of King Sejo, following the deposition of King Danjong and King Sejo's seizure of the throne; the pavilion takes its name from his pen name. It is presumed to have first been built sometime in the 1450s-1460s. It appears to have subsequently been maintained by the Hampung Yi clan, though the details have not been established. After it burned down during the Jeongyu War (1597), it was rebuilt under the name Yeongsujeong, and between 1820 and 1821 the county magistrates Gwon Bok and Kim Sang-jik rebuilt it to its present scale. It was then extensively repaired in 1883, the 20th year of Emperor Gojong's reign, and again repaired in 1966, bringing it to its present state. The building measures three bays across the front and two bays on the side, with a hipped-and-gabled paljak roof shaped like the Chinese character 八 when viewed from the side. Inside, only the bay on each of the left and right sides is fitted out as an ondol room, with the rest laid with wooden flooring as a daecheong. The windows are double doors set into the rear and side of the daecheong, while the front has three panels of doors that can all be lifted open, though these are now fitted with glass.

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Where it is

Region

Hampyeong, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료