Sogok Village School, Changnyeong

Sogok Village School was built in 1856 on a hillside about 500 m north of the original site of Sogok Seowon, a Confucian academy founded around 1650 that had fallen into disrepair some two hundred years after its founding. It was built to jointly enshrine three men — Lord Cheongmin, No Byeon-so; Lord Manchwi, Chambong (a minor court official), No Sim; and Lord Jeolhyo, No Hong-eon, a holder of the jinsa literary licentiate degree — but it suffered damage when the Regent Daewongun ordered the destruction of private Confucian academies nationwide. The present layout of Sogok Village School forms a broken-square plan: a gate building and a lecture hall stand on the north–south axis, with a caretaker's house and Yeongsajeong Pavilion set to the left and right in front of them. Yeongsajeong, within the compound, was originally built around 1825–1830; it was relocated and rebuilt to the east of the lecture hall in 1925, and its roof and other parts were extensively repaired in 1998. In the same year, the caretaker's house west of the lecture hall was also substantially repaired, and the lecture hall's Korean-style roof tiles were removed and replaced with simplified, factory-produced interlocking tiles. The gate building is a structure newly built in 2000, five bays across the front and one bay deep. In connection with Sogok Village School, the tomb of Lord Cheongmin (Monument No. 153) lies about 500 m to the south, and the tomb of Lord Jeolhyo, No Sim, lies 500 m to the north.

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Changnyeong, Gyeongnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료