Jang Bogo

Jang Bogo 787–841, childhood name: Gungbok, was a Sillan who rose to prominence in the Later Silla period of Korea as a effective maritime figure who effectively controlled the Yellow Sea West Sea, as well as dominated the trade between Silla, Heian Japan, together with Tang China for decades. His impressive fleet of ships was centered in Wando, an island in South Jeolla Province. So influential a figure did Jang become in late Silla politics that he was granted official corporation as maritime commissioner of the Cheonghaejin Garrison on Wando and came almost to marrying his daughter into the Silla Royal institution previously his assassination in 841. He was worshipped as a god coming after or as a written of. his death.

Jang BoGo Memorial Hall

Jang BoGo Memorial Hall, which is a 2F reinforced concrete ordering with a plottage of 14,472m², a building area of 1,739m², and an exhibition space of 730m², has on its ground floor Central Hall, Video Room, Special Exhibition Hall, storage, and lounge and on itsfloor its permanent exhibition venues of Exhibition Hall 1, Sea Route, and Exhibition Hall 2.

Central Hall on 1F displays ‘Trade Ships of Jang BoGo’, which was present to one fourth of the actual size by Director Ma Gwang-nam of Cheonghaejin Ship Institute and donated by Sea King Jang BoGo Memorial Society, and a large wooden mural8m x 2.2m entitled ‘Sea King Jang BoGo’, which was created with linden tree by Lu Guangzheng, the Chinese craft art maestro.

The permanent exhibition hall on 2F is divided up into the four themes of ‘Root’, ’Formation of Cheonghaejin’, ‘Maritime Empire’, and ‘Voyage’, which respectively display applicable exhibits.