Jeonju Hanok Village

Gyeonggijeon Shrine

Built in 1410, the tenth year of King Taejong, to house the portrait of Yi Seong-gye after the Joseon dynasty was founded. It is the largest walled compound in the village, and the main hall, the portrait and the dismounting stone below are all inside it.

Portrait of King Taejo

The painted portrait of Yi Seong-gye, founder of Joseon, enshrined inside Gyeonggijeon.

Gyeonggijeon Main Hall

The hall built in 1410 to hold the portrait and to carry the rites performed before it.

The dismounting stone

Carved with the order that everyone reaching this point dismounts, whatever their rank, and that the uninvited go no further.

Jeondong Catholic Church

Built between 1907 and 1914 on the ground where Korea's first Catholic martyrs were executed, which is why it stands where it does.

The cathedral rectory

Built in 1926 by Father Lacrouts, in a Renaissance frame with Romanesque detail — a different building from the church beside it.

Jeonju Confucian School

Said to have been founded in the Goryeo period; the buildings standing today date from the reign of King Seonjo.

Daeseongjeon Hall

The shrine hall to Confucius, and the centre of the school in a dynasty that governed by Confucian doctrine.

Pungnammun Gate

The south gate of the four that ringed the Jeonju city wall, first raised in 1389.

Omokdae and Imokdae

Omokdae is remembered as the spot where Yi Seong-gye feasted on his way back from defeating Japanese raiders. It sits on the ridge that looks down over the village.

Hanbyeokdang Pavilion

A pavilion cut into the cliff at the foot of Seungam-san, whose view had a name of its own long before it had visitors.

Hakindang House

A house that took Baek Nak-jung two years and eight months to build, from 1905.