Jincheon Nongdari Bridge () is

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

's oldest stone

bridge A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...

. Located in

Jincheon County Jincheon County () is a county in North Chungcheong Province (North Chungcheong) Province, South Korea. Location Jincheon belongs to the middle of North Chungcheong Province. It borders several cities of its province but also meets Gyeonggi Pro ...

North Chungcheong Province North Chungcheong Province (), also known as Chungbuk, is a province of South Korea. North Chungcheong has a population of 1,578,934 (2014) and has a geographic area of located in the Hoseo region on the south-centre of the Korean Peninsula. No ...

, this 93-meter long and 3.6-6m wide bridge was built over Sesecheon Stream on the orders of General Lim during the time of the

Goryeo Goryeo (; ) was a Korean state founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korea, Korean Peninsula until the establishment of Joseon in 1392. Goryeo achieved what has b ...

dynasty (918-1392). It was designated as a No. 28 of

on December 21, 1976. The piers are 1.2 m thick and the span between the piers is 80cm. Originally there were 28 channels for the water to flow between the piers, but over time, some piers and channels were destroyed, and a project to restore the 24 channels to the original 28 channels was started in 2008, and completed in 2018. The stones used in the piers were piled up like fish scales, and this method of construction meant that the piers were generally not destroyed even during rainy seasons. The unprecedented method of building the piers with small stones (and no binding material), and the civil engineering considerations used to prevent the piers from being lost make this a precious bridge.

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