Damyang Songgangjeong Pavilion (담양 송강정)

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Songgangjeong pavilion is located in Wongang-ri, Damyang-gun, Jeonnam-Gwangju Special Metropolitan City. It was registered as Jeonnam-Gwangju Special Metropolitan City Provincial Monument No. 1 on January 29, 1972.

Joseon dynasty poet Jeong Cheol (pen name, Songgang) composed his famed poem “Samiingok” from this pavilion. Next to it presently stands the Samingok memorial stone. The two structures at this site, Hwanbyeonkdang and Sigyeongjeong, are collectively referred to as

the “Relics of Jeong Songgang.”