Sikyeongjeong Pavilion was built not for its builder, Kim Seong-won, but for a man named Im Eok-ryeong. Erected in 1560 (the 15th year of King Myeongjong's reign), the pavilion created a quiet, secluded atmosphere, enclosed by an old grove of pine trees. Yet the person who came to visit this pavilion most often and made the fullest use of it was neither the man who built it nor the man for whom it was built, but Jeong Cheol.
Jeong Cheol loved the distinctive atmosphere of Sikyeongjeong and visited frequently, composing here works such as "Seongsan Byeolgok" and "Sikyeongjeong Sippal-yeong." Of these, "Seongsan Byeolgok" would later come to be counted among the representative masterpieces of Jeong Cheol's gasa literature. For this reason, Sikyeongjeong is still regarded today as "the birthplace of Songgang Jeong Cheol's gasa literature." The fact that a pavilion built for someone else ended up producing the masterwork of yet another younger poet who simply borrowed its use illustrates just how tightly interwoven the various birthplaces of Damyang's gasa literature truly were.