Sillyong-dong Five-story Stone Pagoda

Standing tall next to a remote village is a stone pagoda. Although there are no visible remnants of a temple today, a stone Buddha statue stands beside it, suggesting that a temple of considerable size once existed there. The pagoda consists of a two-tiered base upon which a five-tiered main body is erected, topped with a decorative crowning element. The base features pillar-like carvings on each of its four corners and in the center of each side.
In the body of the pagoda, the height suddenly decreases at the second story and then diminishes appropriately up to the fifth story, while the roof stones have four tiers of support on the underside for the first to third stories and three tiers for the fourth to fifth stories. At the top are decorations made of stone of a different material, which appear to have been added later. Overall, it is biased toward formality, so it is presumed to have been made in the early Goryeo period. The lower base was damaged, and the upper base, which was severely cracked with parts missing and nearly on the verge of collapse, was dismantled and restored in 1981. The relics discovered during the dismantling of the pagoda are being preserved after being moved to the Gwangju National Museum.

(Source: Korea Heritage Service website)

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