Former Bugukwon Corporation, Suwon

The Former Bugukwon Corporation in Suwon is a former office building that reflects the formation of a modern streetscape along an old thoroughfare and the historical transformation of the city, and it speaks to Suwon's history and identity as a centre of agricultural administration and agricultural research in the modern era. No precise record of its construction date survives, but since its exterior appears in a photograph in "Suwon" (水原, by Sakai Masanosuke), published in 1923, it is certain that the building was erected before that date. It served as the office of the head office of Bugukwon Co., Ltd., a company that sold crop seeds, seedlings, farming tools and fertiliser during the Japanese colonial period. After liberation, from 1952 to 1956 it was used as the temporary office of the Suwon court and prosecutors' office. From 1957 to 1960 it housed the Suwon Office of Education; in 1974 it served as the Gyeonggi Province branch office of the Republican Party; in 1979 it was used by the Suwon branch of the Korean Federation of Artistic and Cultural Organizations; and in 1981 it became Park's internal medicine clinic. The building has thus moved in step with Suwon's historical and urban changes.

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Where it is

Region

Suwon, Gyeonggi

Designation

Registered Cultural Heritage · 국가등록문화유산