Yeongdeok Unsanseowon Confucian Academy Lecture Hall

Unsanseowon is a seowon, a Confucian academy, dedicated to the memory of Baek Mun-bo (pen name Daman) and Baek Hyeon-nyong (pen name Seongheon). According to records, at the time of its founding it was an unusually large complex of forty-one bays for the Yeonghae region, fully equipped with all the features of a seowon. The academy was closed under the Daewongun's order abolishing seowon academies, but in 1899 a seodang, a private village school, was built on its former site, and it maintained a tradition of private education there until the 1950s. It therefore holds historical and cultural significance as a building used in the course of the transition from pre-modern to modern education.

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Yeongdeok, Gyeongbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료