Bonghwa Bongseoru Pavilion

Bongseoru Pavilion now stands within the market in Bongseong-ri, Bongseong-myeon, but it was originally part of the government office compound of Bonghwa-hyeon, on the site of the present Bongseong-myeon office, and is said to have been relocated to its current position at the end of the Korean Empire period. It was rebuilt in 1738, the 14th year of King Yeongjo of Joseon, by the county magistrate of Bonghwa, Yi Gwang-jik, and is said to have served as a gathering place where the local literati met and exchanged views. According to the old map of Bonghwa County in the Bonghwaji, a local gazetteer, it stood in front of the government office hall and is recorded there as the gate pavilion of the magistrate's hall (dongheon mullu). There is said to have once been a pond in front of Bongseoru. The building is L-shaped: the three bays on the left form a single-storey, straight-line structure, while the two bays on the right are two storeys high. As the building is currently used as a senior citizens' hall, all three left-hand bays have been converted into rooms, but they are said to have originally been arranged, from left to right, as a kitchen, a room and a wooden-floored hall. Only the central bay has a pair of hinged doors, and the side bays have windows installed, though these are not original. In the pavilion section on the right, the lower storey is enclosed with walls, while the upper storey is laid with a wooden-plank floor (umulmaru) and surrounded by a railing. Where it joins the left-hand section, a timber-panelled wall closes off the view of the upper framework, and the columns are square in section on both the upper and lower storeys. Although its original form has been somewhat altered architecturally, Bongseoru Pavilion in Bonghwa is historically valuable as an annex building of the Bonghwa-hyeon government office.

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Where it is

Region

Bonghwa, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료