Buyongjeong Pavilion

Buyongjeong Pavilion was built by Kim Mun-bal (金文發, 1359–1418), who was active from the late Goryeo to the early Joseon period, on a two-tiered platform leveled on flat ground in an open plain. The pavilion's name was taken from the meaning contained in the Ailian Shuo (愛蓮說, 'On the Love of the Lotus') by Zhou Dunyi (周敦頤) of the Northern Song, who praised the lotus (蓮) as the gentleman (君子) among flowers. This pavilion is a place of deep historical significance as the venue for the implementation of the local hyangyak (village covenant) in the Gwangju Integrated Special City area of Jeollanam-do. He also discussed scholarship and recited poetry here with Yi Si-won (李始元), No Ja-jeong (盧自亭), and others. The building has three bays in both front and side, and is a mindori (simple post-and-beam) house without gongpo (bracket sets) on the column tops. It has a matbae (gable) roof laid with well-style flooring, erects entasis columns, and has single eaves. The platform base is built with square rough stones in even courses, and except for the left, right, and center, natural stone double-step foundation stones were placed. All four sides are open spaces without walls, the ceiling is an open yeondeung ceiling, and the yeongol walls are finished with plaster. Many plaques are hung here, including the Buyongjeong signboard and paeks (匾額) engraved with the rujeong jeyeong (樓亭題詠, pavilion poems) of later renowned Confucian scholars such as Yang Eung-jeong (梁應鼎), Go Gyeong-myeong (高敬命), Yi An-nul (李安訥), and Park Je-hyeong (朴濟珩). Around the pavilion are the Chilseok (漆石) village Gossaum Nori (national intangible heritage) transmission center, a ginkgo tree (monument) said to have been planted by Buyong, and the Buyongjeong Stone Monument (芙蓉亭石碑, erected in 1984) inscribed with the history of Buyongjeong.

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