Baeksan Seowon (Iksan)

About this place

Baeksan Seowon is a shrine with a three-bay front, two-bay side, gabled-roof structure facing east. Built in 1915 by descendants of Jeong Jeho and Jeong Dongsik to honor their ancestors' loyalty, it began as an ancestral shrine of the Yeonil Jeong clan of Iksan and later became a representative loyalty shrine of the region. Song Byeongseon, a descendant of Song Siyeol, committed suicide in protest of the 1905 Eulsa Treaty and was posthumously awarded the Order of Independence in 1962. Jeong Jeho passed the civil examination and served as a censor, then died in 1895 after falling from a horse while returning home following the Eulmi Incident. Jeong Dongsik passed the military examination in 1876 and, after Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, left behind a proclamation and hanged himself at Gongbuk Pavilion in Jeonju, receiving the Order of Merit for National Foundation in 1962.