Former Japanese Plantation Office in Juksan-myeon, Gimje

This building was built in 1926 as the plantation office of a Japanese landlord who ran a farm in Juksan-myeon, Gimje during the Japanese colonial period; after liberation it was used as a hospital, and from 1968 it served for thirty-five years as the Juksan branch office of the Dongjin branch of the Agricultural Infrastructure Corporation. It was a plantation office built by a Japanese landlord during the Japanese colonial period to exploit Korea's rural villages, and a monument commemorating his virtue still stands, inscribed with the record '橋本央翁頌德紀念碑', bearing direct witness to the history of land expropriation carried out by the Japanese. With its cream-coloured exterior walls and a concave roof that appears wrapped in a red band, the building shows the features of Western-style architecture well, and it is also famous as the setting of Jo Jeong-rae's epic novel 'Arirang'.

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Where it is

Region

Gimje, Jeonbuk

Designation

Registered Cultural Heritage · 국가등록문화유산