Woldongjae Hall

Woldongjae is a jaesil (a ritual hall where a clan holds ancestral rites) built using the ho (pen name) of General Kim Hyeon-ryong (金見龍), who raised a righteous army during the Imjin War (the Japanese invasions of Korea, 1592–1598); Jangdong, where the jaesil stands, is said to be a village pioneered by the Suwon Kim clan. The jaesil and an auxiliary building known as the gojachae originally stood in an L-shape, but the gojachae has collapsed this year through decay. The jaesil has a toe (jeontoe), a roofed porch bay along the front, and measures four bays across the front and one bay in depth; its plan is of the jungdang-hyeopsil type, with a central wooden-floored hall (maru) flanked by ondol-heated rooms on either side, a plan frequently adopted in jaesil architecture. The ondol rooms on the left and right both have windows and doors on the front and towards the maru, creating access routes on both sides. The front doors are double-leaf sesalmun (fine-latticed doors) set above a meoreum (a low sill board), while the doors facing the maru are double-leaf sesalmun set above a gungpan (a solid wood panel) and stand taller than the front doors; the room on the right, however, has a built-in cupboard at the rear. The maru spans two bays, open at the front and enclosed only at the rear with a plank wall and double-leaf plank doors. The toe at the front extends across all four bays. All the columns are square posts (gakju), and the frame is a simple three-purlin structure (samnyang gagu) with short king-posts (dongjaju) set on rectangular tie-beams (napdori). The roof is a single-eaved, hipped-and-gabled roof (paljak-jibung), with the eaves projecting considerably in proportion to the height of the columns; many of the timbers appear to be reused old material (gujae), as numerous unused mortise holes are found in the members. An ink inscription on the ridge beam (sangnyangmun) reads "上之三十九年 壬寅 二月十六日 申 監柱上樑艮" ("the 39th year of the reign, imin year, 16th day of the second month, sin, the ridge raised under the supervisor's direction"), suggesting that the hall dates to 1902. Although Woldongjae is an early twentieth-century building with no particularly distinctive architectural features, it has been designated for its significance in local biographical history, in the character of a memorial.

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Where it is

Region

Pohang, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료