Cultural heritage in Goyang
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Story of Goyang history
2017-06-20
Story of Apdo Island of Lake Park at the time of King Yeongjo of Joseon
Goyang’s Ilsan Lake Pond is known by everyone in Korea.
Goyang’s biggest festival, Goyang International Expo is held here annually
It is the best attraction site where millions of people visit each year.
Now there are lake, park, trees, flower expo, paths, squares, exhibition of 600 years,
But it looked very different at the time of King Sukjong about 300 years ago.
Records about Joong-myeong (Current Ilsan area), Goyang-gun in the 31st year of King Yeongjo (1755) writes the following of the region.
Translated into Korean, there was an island called Apdo in where there is the lake park today.
There were a lot of ducks and birds on the island, so it was also called the Duck Island.
The dimensions of the island were recorded in details as 10,273 cheok.
The reeds of this island were so well-grown, like that was Nanjido of Seoul, that the country directly managed it.
The government office that managed this region was called Seongonggam and its official title was Chojang.
At the Seonggongam Chosen, Choran and Jeongran were grown and used by the government
Choran means untrimmed reed or common reed and Jeongran means trimmed reed.
All the leaves of the reeds were used the state.
At the time of King YoungKo of early Joseon period, the water of Han River rose to the foot of Jeongbal Mountain at times.
The surrounding areas were wasteland full of reed and marshes, impossible to farm.
It was a natural habitat similar to Janghang Wetland of today.
Reeds were used widely as straw thatch for roofs, rainwears,
Also as firewood and construction materials.
The reeds, special product of the region, were shipped to Mapo Port of Seoul using ships and used by the royalty and the court.
Today’s Lake Park is a development of a big island and the surroundings at the mouth of Han River.
With consistent irrigation works since the 1930s, it had become a large field in 1970s and 80s.
The rice grown here, called Ilsan Rice or Songpo Rice, became nationally famous.
Since the early 1990s, the Land Public Corporation began
Ilsan New City Development Project to change the village and fields into today’s city.
Before, the Goyang Ilsan Lake Park used to be a big reed island.
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