Sancheong-gun Promotes Construction of 'Monghakgwan (夢鶴館)', a Center for Seonbi Culture Education

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Yurim Hall 'Monghakgwan' Perspective View

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam, the hometown of Seonbi culture, is promoting the construction project of the Yurim Hall "Monghakgwan (夢鶴館)," which will serve as a cradle to inherit the lives and wisdom of the old sages.

According to Sancheong-gun on the 27th, Monghakgwan will be built on a 2,000㎡ site near Mokhwa Park in Seongnae-ri, Danseong-myeon, with a project cost of 2 billion KRW, and is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2022.

Once completed, Monghakgwan will enable personality and etiquette education as well as Confucian classics education for youth and residents, which had been conducted mainly around the local Hyanggyo, to be carried out in one place.

It will be used not only as a place for exchange among the Yurim of the southern region but also as a venue for Confucian cultural education such as loyalty and filial piety classes for youth.

In particular, it is expected to establish itself as a historical and cultural education facility that continues the Seonbi spirit of Nammyung Jo Sik, a master of practical Confucianism during the Joseon Dynasty.

Monghakgwan will be built as a hanok modeled after the old Monghakgwan (夢鶴館), which was used as the guesthouse of Danseong-hyeon.

The Danseong-hyeon guesthouse was a building located on the site of the current Danseong Elementary School, known to be where the old Danseong-hyeon Dongheon was located. The foundation stones of the old Monghakgwan still remain at Danseong Elementary School.

The interior of the newly built Monghakgwan will consist of lecture rooms, Yurim offices, and a main classroom.

A county official said, "Monghakgwan is expected to be a place that informs local residents of the value of traditional Seonbi culture and an educational space where growing youth can establish proper values through the lives and wisdom of the old sages."

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