Gyeonggyojang
경교장
The two-storey Western-style house that served as the returned Provisional Government's offices and its members' lodgings, from Kim Ku's arrival from China in 1945 until he was shot dead in his second-floor study on 26 June 1949. Built in 1938 as Jukcheomjang, the residence of the gold-mining magnate Choi Chang-hak, it lost its interior first to embassy use and then to a hospital, was restored from 2010 and reopened to the public on 2 March 2013. It still stands inside the grounds of Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and is run as a branch of the Seoul Museum of History.
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Place information
- Korean name
- 경교장
- Address
- 29 Saemunan-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul (inside the Kangbuk Samsung Hospital grounds)
- Opening hours
- 09:00–18:00 (last entry 17:30)
- Closed
- Every Mon (open if it falls on a public holiday) · Jan 1
- Admission
- Free
- Operated by
- Seoul Museum of History
Prices
| Admission | Free |
|---|
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Where these facts come from
- Seoul Museum of History — the operating notice for its Gyeonggyojang branch: open Tuesday to Sunday 09:00–18:00 with last admission at 17:30; closed on 1 January and every Monday except public holidays; admission free; no reservation needed; address 29 Saemunan-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03181, inside Kangbuk Samsung Hospital; telephone 02-735-2038; no visitor car park ·
- Seoul Museum of History — its account of Gyeonggyojang, which dates the building to 1938, records its 2001 listing as a Seoul city cultural heritage and its 2005 elevation to a national Historic Site, and states that the altered interior was rebuilt from the plans published in the August 1938 issue of Chosen to Kenchiku and opened on 2 March 2013 ·
- Seoul Museum of History — its Gyeonggyojang exhibition guide, which records the house's construction in 1938 as Jukcheomjang for the gold-mining magnate Choi Chang-hak (1891–1959), its use as the Provisional Government's offices and lodgings after the ministers returned in 1945, Kim Ku's death in the second-floor study on 26 June 1949, and its absorption into Koryo Hospital from 1968 ·
- Korea Heritage Portal — the Historic Site 'Gyeonggyojang, Seoul', which gives the location as Pyeong-dong, Jongno-gu, the designation date as 13 June 2005, the managing body as the Seoul Museum of History and the owner as Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, and carries its coordinates ·
- OpenStreetMap — Gyeonggyojang at 29 Saemunan-ro, Pyeong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03181, agreeing with the Korea Heritage Portal coordinate to within about two metres ·