Yongyeon Seowon

Yongyeon Seowon was founded in the 17th year of King Sukjong's reign (1691) under the leadership of Confucian scholars of the Southern faction, including Yi Sang-sang, to commemorate the scholarship and virtue of Yi Deok-hyeong and Jo Gyeong. In the following year, the 18th year of King Sukjong (1692), it received a royal plaque named 'Yongyeon,' which was taken from the name of a famous pond in Pocheon. Yongyeon Seowon is the only seowon established in a stronghold of the Southern faction in Gyeonggi Province, and due to Yi Deok-hyeong's contributions during the Imjin War, it was not demolished even under the Daewongun's seowon abolition decree.

At the time of its founding, the premises included a shrine, lecture hall, east dormitory, and west dormitory, but these were lost during the Korean War and other events, leaving only the shrine, which does not have the typical structure of a seowon. The shrine enshrines the spirit tablets of Yi Deok-hyeong and Jo Gyeong, and it is a wooden-tiled building with a gable roof, measuring 3 kan in front and 2 kan on the sides, repaired in 1972. Every March and August, a memorial rite is held on the middle day to honor the scholarship and virtue of Yi Deok-hyeong and Jo Gyeong.