Byeongsan Seowon

The Byeongsan Seowon is a seowon located in Byeongsa-ri village of the Pungcheon-myeon township within the metropolis of Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Seowon is a kind of neighborhood academy during the Joseon Dynasty. It turned into first mounted as Jondeoksa through local Confucian scholars mainly Jeong Gyeong-se in 1613, the 5th yr of King Gwanghaegung's reign, to commemorate the scholarly fulfillment and distinctive feature of the top notch Confucian student and baby-kisser Ryu Seong-ryong. The predecessor of the seowon turned into Pungak Seodang which turned into a school placed in Pungsan to train the Pungsan Ryu clan throughout the Goryeo period. Ryu Seong-ryong moved the seodang to the modern-day area in 1572.

The history of Byeongsan Seowon began while Ryu Seong-ryong moved to Andong in 1572 from Pungak Seodang, a Confucian college installed throughout the Goryeo length. After Ryu Seong-ryong died in 1607, local Confucianists which include Jeong Gyeong-se based Jondeok Temple in 1613 and enshrined an ancestral tablet to commemorate his academic paintings and virtues. The temple turned into renamed Byeongsan Seowon in 1614.