Seowon

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The Dosan Seowon in Andong was on the back of the 1000 won note, the series issued from 1975 to 2007.
Korean spelling
Korean alphabet : 서원
Hanja : 書院
Revised Romanization : Seowon
McCune-Reischauer : Sŏwŏn

Seowon ( McCune-Reischauer : Sŏwŏn ) were Confucian private academies in Korea of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). They owned a Confucian shrine and were used to prepare students for the civil service examination. As a rule, the students came from the aristocratic Yangban class .

The educational institutions were usually established in locations associated with prominent Confucian scholars. The first Seowon was the Sosu Seowon , which was founded by Ju Sebung in 1534 and was dedicated to the scholar An Yu (An Hyang). The Seowon was used for training and performing Confucian rites and often as a place for scholars belonging to a particular school or faction.

There were about 600 seowons at its peak, but most of them closed before modern public education was introduced.

On July 6, 2019, nine Seowons from the 15th to 19th centuries, which are now in South Korea, were included in the World Heritage Site by UNESCO under the title Seowon, Korean Neo-Confucian Academies . The Sungyang Sowon in North Korea has been on the World Heritage List as part of the Historic Monuments and Sites of Kaesŏng since 2013 .


Trivia

In the computer game Sid Meier's Civilization IV , Seowon can be built instead of campus districts in Korea.

literature

Eun-Jeung Lee : Sŏwŏn - Confucian Private Academies in Korea. Knowledge institutions of the premodern . 1st edition. Peter Lang, 2016, ISBN 978-3-653-95299-5 , doi : 10.3726 / 978-3-653-06337-0 .

Web links

Commons : Seowon  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Confucian Seowon Schools: Korea's Little-Known Miracles. In: Korea.net. March 19, 2014, accessed July 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Sŏwŏn. In: Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Seowon, Korean Neo-Confucian Academies. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Noh Hyung-seok: Nine Korea seowon registered as UNESCO world heritage sites. In: The Hankyoreh . July 8, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019 .
  5. ^ Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 27, 2020 .