Gyeongju Dobong Village School

Dobong Seodang was built in 1545, the first year of King Jungjong of Joseon, at its present site as Chubojae, a myosajae (a ritual hall for ancestral rites performed at a grave site), to commemorate the learning, virtue and filial piety of Hwang Jeong (1426-1497), styled Bulgwonheon, a scholar of the reign of King Seongjong. It was later damaged through war and the passage of a long period of time, and in 1915 the descendants of Hwang Jeong, regretting this, rebuilt the Dobong Seodang complex on the site where Chubojae had stood; this rebuilt form is what survives today. The seodang comprises seven buildings in all — Sungangmun, Dobong Seodang, Chubojae, Yeoneojae, Sangheodang and others — arranged in a form resembling a seowon (Confucian academy). Its layout, with the ancestral ritual hall placed behind the lecture hall rather than in front of it, is a rare arrangement in the Gyeongsang region. The lecture hall, Dobong Seodang, is five kan wide and 1.5 kan deep, with a narrow veranda floor (toenmaru) at the front and narrow attached wooden floors (jjokmaru) along the sides and rear. The shrine, Sangheodang, is four kan wide and 1.5 kan deep and, built around a central hall flanked by side chambers, is in form close to a lecture hall. The study hall, Yeoneojae, is notable for having both its south and east sides finished with hip-and-gable roofs, giving it two front facades.

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Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료