Namgyejeong Pavilion

About this place

Namgyejeong is a pavilion built by Kim Jin, a scholar of the mid-Joseon period, for the purpose of educating later generations. According to records, this building was newly constructed in the 13th year of King Seonjo (1580) and rebuilt twice. The pavilion is a wooden building consisting of a wooden-floored hall (daecheong) and rooms, of three bays across the front and two bays deep, erected on a low platform. The roof is a hip-and-gable roof (paljakjibung) and the bracket system is of the jusimpo style. It is divided into the daecheong hall and rooms, with a veranda (toe) set in an 'L' shape along the front and side of the hall. The floor, laid slightly raised from the ground, has an entrance door at the front like an ordinary house, and a pair of double-leaf storm doors on the side. The corner bracket decoration is splendid and the roof ridge is high, so that despite its small size one can sense a certain dignity. Inside Namgyejeong, the tablets on which the Confucian scholars of the time, such as the righteous-army commander Go Gyeong-myeong, Jo Heon, and Vice Minister Sim Eum-si, praised the learning and virtue of Namgye are preserved as they were, and on the rock at the foot of the cliff below Namgyejeong the name 'Namgyejeong' is engraved in Chinese characters. Namgyejeong is built atop a cliff at the end of a mountain, and climbing this pavilion offers a refreshing view of Duhyeon-ri and, in the distance, Mount Moak at a single glance. Nearby are the Gui Reservoir, the Jeonbuk Provincial Museum of Art, and the Mount Moak tourist complex.