Among the many signal fire stands located in Korea, I classified seashore signal fire stands (Yeonbeon-Bongsoo) into six forms. Through this classification, I have proved that the forms of seashore signal fire stands still extant in each region are di...
Among the many signal fire stands located in Korea, I classified seashore signal fire stands (Yeonbeon-Bongsoo) into six forms. Through this classification, I have proved that the forms of seashore signal fire stands still extant in each region are different in many aspects from the literary records.
Many reasons may be suspected for my reasoning, but the principal reason I suspect the differences is that much extension and reconstruction had been made from the time of installing signal fire stands until abolishment. Another reason is that it is hard to set a fixed form of signal fire stands because various factors were combined such as regional peculiarity, geographical factors, and building materials. Thus, there may be different forms of signal fire stands although they were established in the same region. I took the examples of signal fire stands in Uljin and Samcheok in Gangwon-do.
This study is an experimental plan in an attempt to classify signal fire stands and I restricted the classification only to seashore signal fire stands, which, so far, have been dealt with in terms of a system.
The significance of this study lies in providing a foundation for further research to be made after the completion of a field study of all extant signal fire stands nationwide and the completion of many materials for the study.