Yeongyang Jusilmaeul

About this place

* Jo Ji-hun's Jusil Village. Jusil Village, belonging to Jugok-ri, Ilwol-myeon, Yeongyang-gun, has Mt. Ilwol to the north, Cheonggi-myeon to the west, Subi-myeon to the east, and adjoins Yeongyang-eup to the south. Jusil Village, where Jo Ji-hun was born, is a traditional village and also a village of deep history that preserved a progressive culture leading to exchange with Silhak scholars and to enlightenment reform. In Jusil Village, the birthplace of the poet Jo Ji-hun, Hoeunjongtaek (Gyeongsangbuk-do Monument) sits spaciously in the middle of the village, and many cultural resources such as Okcheonjongtaek (Gyeongsangbuk-do Folklore Material) and Wollok Seodang still remain as they were. * Jo Ji-hun's Birthplace. This is where the poet and Korean-literature scholar Jo Ji-hun (1920-1968) was born. Jo Ji-hun was from Yeongyang, Gyeongsangbuk-do; his real name was Dong-tak. In the poems of the Cheongnokjip, published jointly with Bak Mok-wol and Bak Du-jin, he mainly sang the context of national history, praise for the world of classical beauty, and the world of Seon (Zen); he is regarded as significant in the history of poetry for showing a high-toned awareness of nature imbued with Confucian moralism. The house is divided into the main body and the caretaker's house; the main body has a ㅁ-shaped floor plan of 7 kan at the front and 7 kan at the side. Seen from the side, the roof is a hip-and-gable roof shaped like the character for 'eight' (八), and it has the appearance of a typical yangban house of the northern Yeongnam region. On the main gate and middle gate, carved and colored Taegeukgi (Korean flags) are inset, and the house is surrounded by an antique-looking wall. This house is a typical style of dwellings in the region; it was built by Jo Jeong-hyeong during the reign of King Injo (r. 1623-1649) in the mid-Joseon period, and the part burned during the Korean War was restored in 1963. Besides Master Jo Ji-hun, this is also the birthplace of people who did great things for the country, such as Jo Seung-gi, a righteous-army commander at the end of the Korean Empire, and his grandfather Jo In-seok. * Jugok-dong Okcheonjongtaek. The old house of Okcheon Jo Deok-rin of the Hanyang Jo clan, it is a representative example of a late-17th-century yangban house consisting of the living quarters (jeongchim), the detached study hall (chodang) for reading, and the family shrine (sadang). The living quarters have the floor plan of the ㅁ-shaped houses distributed mainly around the Andong region. The main gate is set in the middle of the 5-kan front, with the inner sarang room on the left. On the right is an ondol room converted from a stable, and there are a kitchen and a storeroom. The main body of the living quarters sits higher than the parts that bend to either side, and the front has a 6-kan main hall (daecheong) open toward the inner courtyard. From the right of the daecheong, the dojang room and the inner room (anbang) adjoin; the anbang extends one more kan toward the wooden floor, making it two kan. Among the ㅁ-shaped houses of Gyeongsangbuk-do, cases where the dojang room is placed at the upper end of the daecheong and the anbang occur occasionally, but examples like here, where the dojang room floor is laid with wooden planks rather than ondol, are uncommon. The chodang, built in 1695 (the 21st year of King Sukjong of Joseon), is a place for teaching children or for the elderly to stay. It shows the typical floor-plan composition of this region and, as a building erected in 1790 (the 14th year of King Jeongjo), its central bay is somewhat wider. It is placed to the rear-right of the main quarters and surrounded by a wall. It shows the typical floor-plan composition of the Andong region, but differs in that the anbang comes to the east and the sarang room is placed to the west. From the 18th century, this form is unified into a plan in which the anbang and kitchen are placed to the west. * Wollok Seodang. A seodang built to educate and cultivate later scholars. It is said that Wolha Jo Un-do (1718-1796) proposed it and that the Hanyang Jo, Yaseong Jeong, and Hamyang O clans led its construction in 1773 (the 49th year of King Yeongjo of Joseon). It is a single-row (一-shaped) building of 4 kan at the front and 2 kan at the side, with a fine view and a quiet setting good for study. The middle two kan are made into a wooden-floored main hall (daecheong), and both sides are made into rooms; the right bears the plaque 'Geukbokjae' (克復齋) and the left 'Jonseongjae' (存省齋). Set in a scenic spot, it is a building that well preserves the architectural style of the late Joseon period.