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YANGCHON GONGSO
Yangchon was selected for the pilot because surviving built fabric, documented historical change and living community recollection intersect particularly visibly at the site.
The prototype connects participant accounts to particular parts of the documented environment, including memories concerning wartime occupation, resistance, religious practice and changes to the building.
HOW TO EXPLORE
Select the hotspots within the 3D environment to encounter individual accounts associated with particular locations and features. Use the model to examine where participant recollection, surviving fabric and documentary history meet, reinforce one another or remain unresolved.
SITE CONTEXT
(The contextual history below is kept separate from participant testimony. This distinction is intentional: the SNIP pilot does not treat documentary history and situated recollection as interchangeable sources.)
Yangchon Station Church, established in 1888 and rebuilt in 1949, is a traditional Korean wooden building located in Yesan. Although now a station church, Yangchon originally served as the center of the parish before the headquarters moved to Hapdeok in 1899. The building consists of four bays by two bays, with the altar placed to the right of the main entrance and ancillary rooms to the left. Its distinctive feature is an outward-projecting central altar wall flanked by three exterior columns.
Initially a thatched-roof structure, the church was later updated with corrugated metal roofing. The site includes a metal fence, concrete-paved yard, a bell tower (currently removed for restoration), and a pilgrim shelter built after a major restoration in 2017. The church also played a historic role during the Korean War when it was used by North Korean forces. Today, it is preserved as an important origin site of Hapdeok Parish.
The pilot does not claim to reconstruct a complete history of Yangchon. It tests how a limited set of attributable accounts can remain connected to both source and place within a digital heritage environment.
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