Hamyang Gunjajeong Pavilion

Bongjeon village, in Seoha-myeon, was the home of Jeong Yeo-chang's wife's family, and whenever he visited his in-laws and stayed there he would relax at Yeonguidae, the terrace where Gunjajeong Pavilion now stands. Jeon Se-geol and Jeon Se-taek, fifth-generation descendants of Hwarimjae Jeon Si-seo — the founding ancestor of the Jeongseon Jeon clan in this village — built a pavilion here in 1802 to commemorate Master Ildu (Jeong Yeo-chang), naming it Gunjajeong, "Pavilion of the Noble Man," after the idea that a man of noble character had once stayed there. It has since undergone several repairs, though the details are not recorded. Gunjajeong stands about 150m downstream from Geoyeonjeong Pavilion. It measures three kan (structural bays) across the front and two kan deep, but is relatively small, with a bay width of about 5 ja (a traditional unit of length, roughly 30.3cm) at the front and 4 ja at the side. Like Geoyeonjeong, it is a single-span, two-storey pavilion built on natural bedrock, its interior left entirely open with no rooms installed. A wooden-plank staircase on the right side of the front gives access to the upper floor, and on all four sides a gyeja balustrade (a balustrade with curved corner braces) extends about 15–18cm beyond the columns. The floor is laid with long wooden planks (jangmaru); this was originally a well-floor (umulmaru, a grid of short boards) later altered, and Hamyang County is now working to restore its original form. Built on a flat expanse of natural bedrock, the pavilion uses no foundation stones, and all the columns are round; the columns beneath the floor use large-diameter timbers left twisted or uneven in their natural shape and only roughly dressed. Hwalju support posts are set beneath the tips of the eaves on all four sides for stability, and the tops of the columns are cut straight without ikgong brackets, finished with boaji (curved bracket arms) rounded at the corners. Soro blocks are set between the changbang tie-beam and the janghyeo beneath the eave purlin as decoration. The frame follows a five-purlin structure: above the main beam, the upper beam (jongbo) is supported by a cross-shaped member made of a plank along the beam direction and two tiers of square timber along the purlin direction, and above the jongbo there is no king-post, the jongbo directly supporting the ridge purlin's janghyeo and the ridge purlin itself. On the left and right sides, chungnyang beams rise to rest on the main beam, their heads cut straight, and no dancheong (coloured paintwork) has been applied. It has single eaves and a hipped-and-gabled (paljak) roof.

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Region

Hamyang, Gyeongnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료