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The Gyeong’un palace(慶運宮) commenced its service initially as a facility known as the ‘Jeong’reung-dong Haeng’gung(貞陵洞行宮),’ which was originally designed as a temporary residence for the traveling king. Later it served as a ‘temporary palace’ for King Seonjo for a while, when he returned from his brief evacuation of the capital due to the breakout of the war with the Japanese in the 1590s. This facility was only meant as a temporary living place for the king, but with king Seonjo’s prolonged stay at this place, it began to serve as a fully functional palace. After the war, it was simply fiscally unsound to rebuild the old palace, so Seonjo decided to enlarge this Haeng’gung residence, and create a special section(別殿) and then transform the entire facility into an I'gung(離宮) palace. King Gwang’hae-gun, who were staying at this place as well since his enthronement, decided to move over to the recently completed Changdeok palace(昌德宮) which had been going through a renovation since the ending days of Seonjo. At the occasion, he bestowed a formal title of Gyeong’un palace(慶運宮) to the place where he had been staying, and ordered all the offices that had been serving the kings during their stay be maintained. Gwang’hae-gun made it official that until the Gyeongbok palace(景福宮) was reconstructed, Gyeong’un palace(慶運宮) would continue to serve as an I’gung(離宮) palace. Later he returned to this place even with the objection of the vassals, and stayed there until the seventh year of his reign. It seems like he wanted to show the public and the government that Gyeong’un palace was being actively used just like the new Main palace(法宮) Changdeok palace.