Lesson 5 Science Recovers the Past
3. Gyeongcheonsa sipcheung seoktap
Gyeongcheonsa sipcheung seoktap is well-known for its elaborate decorations, splendid shape, and unique structure.
The pagoda was originally built in 1348 during the Goryeo Dynasty, but it was disassembled and illegally transported to Japan by a Japanese court official.
After it was returned to Korea in 1918, it was left disassembled for forty years at Gyeongbokgung Palace.
Conservation skills at that time were not good enough to restore it.
Although the pagoda was first restored in 1960, it suffered from wind, rain, and so on as time went by.
So the pagoda was repaired again and moved inside the National Museum of Korea in 2005.
It took almost ten years, from 1995 to 2005, to re-restore the pagoda.
Conservation scientists removed the cement used in the first restoration process.
They replaced it with marble, which is the same material as the original stone.
They also restored some of the original decorations.
They carried out another important process, which was rebuilding the first three stories of the body.
During the conservation process, scientists found that the first three stories had been put together incorrectly, so they put them back in the right order.
Part 3 Conclusion
While working on the project, we found something important:
Conservation science helps people understand Korea’s proud past.
In addition, we realized that our culture will not survive without our effort to preserve it.
So our group decided to do our best to save our cultural heritage for future generations.
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