Byeongamjeong Pavilion and Separate Shrine of the Yecheon Gwon Clan

About this place

This building is associated with Gwon Won-ha, a representative independence activist of the Yecheon region during the Japanese colonial period. Byeongamjeong Pavilion is a hip-and-gable tile-roofed structure of 5 bays wide and 2 bays deep, situated on a large rock shaped like a folding screen on the eastern side of the pavilions. Byeongamjeong particularly preserves the architectural style and floor plan form of the late 19th century well, and its site conditions appropriate for pavilion architecture, along with traditional landscaping elements such as rocks, ponds, and artificial stone mountains, make it an important resource for the study of landscape history. The separate shrine (Byeolmyo) to the right of the pavilion is a gabled tile-roofed structure of 3 bays, originally the shrine of Insan Seowon (Confucian Academy); when the academy was abolished, only the shrine was moved here to enshrine Gwon Maeng-son, Gwon O-gi, Gwon O-bok, and Gwon Yong.