Gyeongchungjae Hall, Hamyang

Gyeongchungjae, in Docheon-ri, Hamyang, is the building raised by the brothers Ha Mun-do and Ha Rak-do in April 1855, the sixth year of King Cheoljong, and in the same year they reprinted the Hojeongjip, the Collected Works of Hojeong, in what became known as the Gyeongchungjae edition. From 1861, the twelfth year of King Cheoljong, until recently it served as Wiyangseowon, an institution for training younger scholars, but it closed as student numbers declined. Munchungsa Shrine, dedicated to Ha Ryun (posthumous title Munchunggong), together with Wiyangseowon, Seonjanggak and the east and west study halls, no longer survive, but Gyeongchungjae was designated a Gyeongsangnam-do cultural heritage item in November 2009 and has since been dismantled, repaired and kept under management. In 1976 Ha Gyeong-sik, head of the family line and Ha Ryun's nineteenth-generation descendant, repaired its roof tiles. The hall measures four bays across the front and two bays deep, with two rooms on the west side and a narrow veranda (toenmaru) occupying the two east bays. Its platform and foundation stones are of natural stone, while the columns stand on dressed stone bases. Gyeongchungjae was planned to serve faithfully as a seodang, a private school, and shows a notable effort to make good use of its small spaces in the arrangement of its rooms.

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Where it is

Region

Hamyang, Gyeongnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료