Historical Attraction

Kangnung Hyanggyo
K'angrung-hyanggyo was established under the Hwabu mountain by a government officer Kim Sung-in in the fifth year of King Ch'ungson(A.D. 1313) of Koryo Dynasty. It had been burned down in the eleventh year of King T'aejong(A.D. 1411) of Chosun Dynasty and reconstructed two years later.

This hyanggyo had been completed its magnificent structure with T'aesongjon, T'ongsojae, Myongryundang, T'osohyopshil, Namru and other annexes in the K'yehae year of King Injo. Among those buildings, Munmyo-daesongjon is registered as National Treasure no. 214 for its value in studying construction style of the early Chosun era. This hyanggyo is one of the premier building of this sort.

Nowadays the other hanggyos remove the ancestral tablets of noted Chinese wisemen from Their walls. However this hanggyo has kept the way of arranging ancestral tablets of the Chosun era. As you can see from the title, Hanggyo have two functions. One is to offer sacrifice to ancestors and the other is to educate younger scholars. Each Hanggyo had their own way to arrange ancestral tablets.

In this hanggyo, they enshrine Confucius, Anja, Saun, Jungja, Mencius, the ten leading disciples of Confucius and the six wisemen of Song Dynasty. In T'ongsomu, they enshrine eighteen wisemen of Korea on the upper seat and ninty-seven Chinese on the lower seat.

Ch'ongganjong
Overlooking Samch'ok harbor, Tonghae Ch'okchu monument is on the peak of Yukhyang Mountain. It is 170.5cm high and 76cm wide with the seal characters engraved on Osok. It was set up to soothe the roaring sea which would inflict severe damage on villages in Samch'ok. The monument is also called Toejobi(means a mounment to drive back tides) and is renowned for its unique handwring.