영남지역 사례를 통해 본 서원 활용 방안 제언

Abstract

This study intends to propose a modern utilizing method of Confucian culture contents by centering on several cases of Seowon utilizations in Youngnam region together with forthcoming Seowon. Seowon is educational institution by aiming at fostering younger students so as to evaluate the lives of persons who realized Confucian ideology highly, and move toward attitudes of such lives. Evaluations on lives were made through the function of orientation which recognized oriented persons as adults, and fostering younger students was achieved through the function of pursuing study. It was the reason that matching between unfamiliar ancestrial rites and pursuing study was natural in Seowon, educational institution of premodern society, if looked from the modern society. Specially, the standard of orientation having been suggested by Yi Hwang became strong driver so that younger students could live according to lives of Confucian scholars by recognizing persons who had region and connections as adults and letting them oriented. It was likely that Joseon Dynasty fell into stronger Confucian society than any other society accordingly. Based on above findings, this study suggested cases that revived utilization and educational functions as tourism contents having been done in a lot of Seowons in Youngnam now. In addition, utilization potential as culture experiential space of regional-attachment type was proposed too. Besides, an utilization method of Seowon as the subject of being able to recover regional memorial functions through an modernized interpretation about orientation function was suggested in this research. Through recovery of memorial functions having been lost in Korea, cherishing the memory of persons who lived exemplary lives is made, and the feature of people to learn in each local society are suggested based on this. Of course, its scope and field, detailed methods etc. are still left as difficult matters, but trying to be worried is necessary in aspects of grouping directions. Furthermore, a reviving plan of Soewon’s original functions having been kept in traditional society through linkage with colleges was offered. It is the method of linking role models in the region with the foundational idea, and bringing Seowon’s functions having been functioned as oriented knowledge network of the region to modern times through ‘a symbol called Seowon.’ Therefore, original functions having been kept in Seowon were reinterpreted, and modern use was proposed on its bases.