Historic Site Related to Yu Gwan-sun, Cheonan

This is a historic site connected with Patriot Yu Gwan-sun, who took part in the independence movement during the March First Movement and died for her country; it includes her birth house and the site of the mound where she raised beacon fires. Yu Gwan-sun was born into a devout Christian family descended from a long line of scholars. In 1916, with the help of a missionary, she entered Ewha Hakdang. When the March First Movement broke out the following year, she took part in the demonstrations in Seoul, and when the Japanese colonial authorities closed the schools with an order suspending classes, she returned to her hometown and began planning an independence demonstration. On the first day of the third lunar month she led a demonstration at the Aunae market, in which nineteen people, including her own parents, were killed and thirty injured, and many others were arrested. Yu Gwan-sun was subjected to brutal torture and died for her country in September 1920. Her body was buried in the public cemetery at Itaewon, Seoul, but the grave was lost in the course of urban development. In order to commemorate Yu Gwan-sun's patriotic spirit forever and to spread the spirit of the March First Movement, Cheonan City built a shrine in 1972 and enshrined her portrait there. A beacon-fire platform and tower were also erected, and every year on the last day of March a beacon fire is lit there to mark the anniversary. The name was changed from "Yu Gwan-sun Historic Site" to "Historic Site Related to Yu Gwan-sun, Cheonan" (notified 28 July 2011).

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Cheonan, Chungnam

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Historic Site · 사적