Sosu Seowon

Sosu Seowon is the oldest seowon, private Neo-Confucian academy in Korea which changed into mounted at some stage in the Joseon Dynasty period. It turned into found at the entrance of Suksusa Temple, in Sunheung-myeon, Yeongju City, Gyeongsangbuk-do South Korea. Sosu Seowon become based by Ju Sebung, who become serving as Justice of the Peace of Pungseong county. Sosu Seowon become the simplest seowon that survived from the Seowon Abolishment by Heungseon Daewongun Regent in 1871. It has been properly preserved maintaining maximum of its antique structures and is exact as National Treasure of South Korea No.

In 1542, throughout the 37th yr of King Jungjong's reign of the Joseon Dynasty, the magistrate of Punggi County and Confucian pupil, Ju Se-bung, built Baekundong Seowon, renamed to Sosu Seowon in 1550, to honor the peaceful times of Goryeo. Also in 1550, at some stage in the reign of King Myeongjong of the Joseon Dynasty, Toegye Yi Hwang mounted Sosu Seowon as the first legislated non-public institute of Korea. Many criticized Ju Se-bung's actions of founding Baekundong Seowon in the course of a time of famine. But be defended himself with the aid of quoting Zhu Xi, the scholar who systematized Neo-Confucianism in Song dynasty. Like Zhu Xi, Ju Se-bung believed that education was the cardinal virtue of man, and need to be promoted notably else.