Byeokgolje Reservoir Site

Introduction of tourist site

The Byeokgolje Reservoir Site is famous for the ancientry reservoir of Korea biggest best for the private the 111 number. If it is the Gimje CITY Buryang, the bank reached from Sinyongri about 3km over the month triumph is existing and Jangsaenggeo and one of the five wathces of the night great undertaking 2 floodgates are existing among the Suyeogeo, Jangsaenggeo, Jungsimgeo, one of the five wathces of the night great undertaking, and Yutonggeo total 5 floodgates. The length is 3.3km and presently, remains 2.6km. In Jangsaenggeo, there is one of the five wathces of the night great undertaking in the place about 2km falling. The wide ancientry farming is bought and the culture and engineering and construction industry importance is acknowledged and the designate is privately managed with the nation on January 21, 1963. The construction time is seeing as BaeckJae 11th rhinophyma king 27 year (330) with the Chronicles of the Three States record. After repairing after Unified Kingdom of Silla weonseongwang 6 year (790), the consideration GB 3 and human race and building, the Byeokgolje Reservoir Site repaired but was washed away by the pouring rain which is severe in the Sejong 2 year (1420) in Joseon Tae-Jong 15 year (1415). By remodelling this bank into Gimjegan player according to the unam the installation this circular is damaged in 1925 marching east farmland improvement association,that is the period of Japanese occupation, and it is reaching to the today. The Byeokgolje Reservoir Site is estimated as one in which 320,000 people total number of people is mobilized only for the bank.

It was discovered in the Byeokgolje Reservoir Site 'Jungsimgeo' excavation investigation which the Jeonbuk cultural assets researcher implements as the shape of which the mud pocket (Chonang) is unimpaired recently and the Gimje Byukgoljae got to gain recognition for the symbolism called the nation's largest of which the enormous labor is mobilized artificial reservoir and excellent civil engineering technology. The branch or leaf, and etc. is spread and this Chonang which puts the mud for the reinforcement of the bank and which it builds is the kind of the sidelobe method of construction piling up the soil. In the steps Festival room bottom, because Chonang adjusts the row the southwest and northeast and it is arranged, it is presumed as one doing the role that it tramps solidly the weak ground. And in the Chonang, the rice seed, peach seed, and etc. were unearthed with the soil and the annual plant water pool bundle of woven straw for thatching,that is the fresh water indicator species, is found out in this lower layer and the Byeokgolje Reservoir Site estimates and can see the point that it was the reservoir in the past.

Actually, the radiocarbon dating result Chonang was exposed to be made in the Unified Silla Era which is around 7 century. This is the result that it corresponds to the Unified Kingdom of Silla weonseongwang 6 year (790) with the record of <the The Chronicles of the Three States> that it contracted the bank the license ·. A tourist site is created in Byeokgolje complex, and there are the main facilities including Byeokgolje Museum of Agricutural Culture, Byeokcheon Art Gallery, Theme and Experience Space for Agricultural History, Traditional House Experience Village, etc. There are also Jo Jeong-rae Arirang Literature Center and National Youth Agricultural Science Center across Byeokgolje Tourist Site. In addition, Byeokgolje complex is the main stage of the national famous festival 'Gimje Jipyongsun Festival'. The 20th 'Gimje Jipyongsun Festival' will be held for 5 days from October 5th until October 9th, and it was selected as a Korean global promotion festival designated by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.