Yecheon Samgang Tavern
27 Samgang-ri-gil, Pungyang-myeon, Yecheon-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do
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Samgang Tavern was a wayside inn at the Samgang Ferry crossing, where it provided food to travelers and served as lodging for traveling merchants (bopusang), and sometimes as a gathering place for poets and scholars. Notably, the kitchen walls bear a tally board kept by an illiterate innkeeper grandmother who recorded credit tabs by scoring lines with chopsticks. Built around 1900, the tavern is small but exemplifies a compact and efficient floor plan true to its function, making it a rare and valuable architectural record of its era. It also preserves the social history of a local community. After the longtime innkeeper grandmother Yu Ok-yeon passed away in 2006, the tavern stood abandoned until it was restored to its original appearance in 2007, reopening to welcome travelers with a new innkeeper.