Abstract

In this study, the values of storytelling to be applied to a culture tourism program were suggested by interpreting the Confucian ideology of Joseon and architectural changes in the later generations in terms of modern mythologies through Ahndong Bongjeongsa Temple. As the research method, Bongjeongsa Temple was examined from the aspect of Roland Barthes’s modern mythologies and discussed in three viewpoints found in the historical flow. The categories are the Confucian mythologic feature that shows the symbolism of how Bongjeongsa Temple was built through a human phoenix, the modern mythologic feature which dismantles the building to which Confucian supremacy was applied at the point of cultural assets restoration in 1960s, and the inherited mythological feature that the space of Manselu of Bongjeongsa Temple where Confucianism and Buddhism had been exchanged was applied to the construction of Seowons and to the elements of modern architecture later. The mythological values of storytelling culture tourism centered around Bongjeongsa Temple are as follows: First, Bongjeongsa Temple clearly reveals the semiotic meanings of ‘a phoenix’, ‘heavenly lamp’, ‘placenta of a king’ and etc. with its tale of establishment, and the analytic contents of the Buddhist tales implying a unified nation of those times should be reflected as the value of culture tourism storytelling. Second, the symbolized tradition in which a phoenix represents a king in the Bongjeongsa Temple foundation tale and the Confucian myth where Toegye is praised as a human phoenix need to be discussed as culture tourism contents that can be developed into an ideological value after being mixed with Buddhistic beliefs. Third, the dismantlement of ‘Wuhwalu’ and ‘Jinyeomun’ was the act of space restoration eliminating the complexity from the exchange between Buddhism and Confucianism, and needs to be recognized as the storytelling value to reflect on the modern mythological behavior exerted on Bongjeongsa Temple from which the historical trail had been erased. ‘Manselu’ of Bongjeongsa Temple is the space where monks and classical scholars interacted, and ‘Mandaelu’ of Byeongsanseowon, a Confucian building, has the common architectural element. It is the concept of ‘Nuhajinib’, shift of space and an entrance function, and ‘Lu malu’ to which nature was introduced with Chagyeong technique, and has been settled as the value of an inheritance factor of the traditional architectural culture today. Therefore, the archetetural elements related to the foundation tale of Bongjeongsa Temple can create the storytelling value with the implication of liberal arts that tourists can actually recognize with traditional architecture.

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