East Asia
North Korea
North Hwanghae

Sungyang Sowon

Sungyang Hall is a fourteenth-century Confucian academy located on the side of Mt. Janam in , . The hall was constructed in the late fourteenth century for the home of the famously loyal statesman and Confucian scholar Chŏng Mong-ju, whose 1392 assassination by the agents of the later Taejo of Joseon marked the end of the Koryo dynasty.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: school in North Korea
  • Also known as: “Sungyang Academy”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kaesong Youth Stadium and Namdaemun.

Stadium
The Kaesŏng Youth Stadium is a multi-use in , . It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 35,000 spectators and opened in 1988. is situated 670 metres north of Sungyang Sowon.

Monument
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
The Kaesong is the south gate of the old walled city of , North Korea. Constructed between 1391 and 1393, it is the only one of the original seven citadel gates to survive mostly intact into the present. is situated 520 metres southwest of Sungyang Sowon.

Hotel
Photo: Jack Upland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a tourist hotel located in , , which opened in 1989. Housed in 19 traditional hanok-style courtyard houses, many of which date to the Joseon dynasty and retain their original furnishings. is situated 730 metres west of Sungyang Sowon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kaesong and Kijong-dong.

Photo: Nicor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kaesŏng is a city in , only 8 km from the with . Twelve historic monuments and sites in were inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2013.

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is reportedly a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri, Panmun-guyok, , . It is situated in the North's half of the . is situated 9 km east of Sungyang Sowon.

Sungyang Sowon

Latitude
37.97497° or 37° 58′ 30″ north
Longitude
126.56092° or 126° 33′ 39″ east
Open location code
8Q98XHF6+X9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1097383003
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q11253145
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Vietnamese—“Sungyang Sowon” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “崧陽書院 (開城)”
  • Chinese: “崧陽書院”
  • Japanese: “崧陽書院”
  • Korean: “개성 숭양서원”
  • Korean: “숭양서원”
  • Vietnamese: “Học viện Sungyang”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Kaesong Cultural House and Revolutionary Museum for the History of Kaesong.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sungyang Sowon”. Photo: Photlas, CC BY-SA 3.0.