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Kakhwangsa, the first modern came from the thought of 'Total Buddhist center,' which aims to attain the approval as a main office of the Won order in December, 1909. Appearing in 1908, Won order could not have approval, but Kakhwangsa was found in Oct. 1910; its function as a main office was hold, and it started as a dissemination center. However, it was not considered much at first because of the promise of Jodong order, Limje order movement, and enforcement of temple law. At that time when temples and dissemination centers were absent in the central Seoul, Kakhwangsa was important. As the Abbot meeting as a Buddhist representative appeared in May, 1912, Kakhwangsa identified itself as a central dissemination center, and gradually became the main center for Buddhist work. It added the function of Buddhist management as the headquarter of 30 main temple was located in it in 1915. After 1924, the central offices moved into the building of Boseong, Kakhwangsa maintained the function of pure dissemination. It became as a main center since 1927, thanks to Kim, taeheup who was a missionary and dedicated himself to dissemination, lecture, and founding of Ilkyo school. The real change of Kakhwangsa was its moving and new construction in present Jogyesa in Oct. 1938, which was closely related to the unification movement of Buddhism. Before that, Buddhists thought of the decline of Kakhwangsa, and decided to its new construction, but failed. The change was made when its construction was related with the representative center of Buddhist unification movement since early 1937. In early 1937, the determination of plan about Kakhwangsa was into action. At last Oct. 1938, new construction of Kakhwangsa was completed, and it moved as a meaning of unification movement. Furthermore, it changed its name as Taegosa in July 1940. Behind that existed, the succession of Taegobow and the plan for Buddhist unification movement. It means appearance of Choseon Buddhist Jogye Order. As the office of Jogye order was located in Taegosa, it played its management role of main temple. This paper examined the dual characteristic of Kakhwangsa, dissemination and management, as the first modern dissemination center. The both element were important at that time, and the status and historical meaning of Kakhwangsa cannot be reduced.