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This study was performed to grasp the shape and size of Jingryemun, the South Gate of Kyungju Eupsung in the Joseon Dynasty, through relevant documentary and photo data as well as researches at site in order to provide basic data for its restoration by estimating its original form. The study results on its shape and size estimated by analyzing such relevant data are as follows: First, we studied the old documents relevant to construction of Kyungju Eupsung, which indicated that it had been already built and then added and renovated several times in the Goreyo Dynasty; was destroyed through Imjin War; and its four main gates were constructed again in turn in the 10th year of the King Injo (1632). With these facts, we have quite clearly grasped the names of the castle-gates and construction time of Jingryemun, which still remained early in the Japanese occupancy period. Second, we collected old maps and photo data to grasp the shapes of the castle-gates, so that we could overview the formative characteristics of the four main gates shown on the Map of Kyungju-eup, which was estimated to be drawn around the 22nd year of the King Jeongjo of the Joseon Dynasty (1796) and then understood the general view of the South Gate (Jingryemun) of Kyungju Eupsung shown on a photo shot during the Japanese occupancy period. In addition, the comparison between the Map of Kyungju-eup and its relevant Cadastral Map drawn during the Japanese occupancy period made it possible to grasp every location of the four main gates of Kyungju Eupsung. Then, we put such locations on its relevant Cadastral Map currently used, so that we could grasp the relatively exact locations of the gates' lands. Third, we compared and analyzed the sizes of Eupsung gates of the Joseon Dynasty that still existed and then looked through their typical characteristics in order to grasp the sizes of the castle-gates of Kyungju Eupsung. Then, we estimated the approximate size of the remaining Jingryemun through photo compensation work. In order to restore the analyzed size of Jingryemun in its original shape as much as we could, we used the King Yeongjo's Measurement Unit prevailing the relevant period to recalculate its size; and applied the typical characteristics of the castle-gates constructed in the other regions during the Joseon Dynasty to the forms and sizes that were not well shown through such photo compensation work. The result of the study for restoration of Jingryemun indicated that it was the biggest Munru among the Eupsung castle-gates of the Joseon Dynasty that could be grasped. Through this study, we did not only make it clearer about the shape of Jingryemun that had been shown only on some documentary recordings and a few pieces of photo but also calculate its size, so that we acquired the basic data for restoration of the castle-wall of Kyungju Eupsung. This study was, however, also thought to show its own limitation caused by the little volume of its analyzed data. Such limitation, therefore, should be continuously overcome by finding out more recordings and through more results that would be gotten together with the achievements on excavation researches of gates' lands of Eupsungs.