Main Building and Cheongsong Hall of Gyeonggi Commercial High School, Seoul

The main building is a red-brick structure that retains notable features of a modern-era educational facility, including a symmetrical façade, a mansard roof, a three-sided arch over the projecting entrance porch, and stone ornamentation atop the chimneys. Cheongsong Hall, an assembly hall with a pitched roof, is very simple in form overall apart from its arched main entrance and the surrounding stone decoration; the grove of bansong, a multi-trunked variety of Korean red pine planted in front of the main building when the school opened, also stands as a symbol of the school's history. The buildings served as the school hall of Gyeonggi-do Public First-class Commercial School, the first provincial school in Gyeonggi-do. As a contemporary experiment in joint Korean-Japanese schooling, it is a historic site where Korean students competed fiercely with their Japanese counterparts.

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Where it is

Region

Jongno-gu, Seoul

Designation

Registered Cultural Heritage · 국가등록문화유산