Historic Site Related to Yun Seon-do, Haenam

Geumswaedong, and Hyeonsan-goseong located within it, are the places where Gosan Yun Seon-do stayed at the age of 54, in 1640 (the 18th year of King Injo), and wrote several works including the 'Geumswaedonggi' (Record of Geumswaedong). Yun Seon-do was adopted by his uncle at the age of eight and moved to live in Haenam. At twenty he passed the seungbosi (a preliminary state examination) at the top of his class, and in 1616, as a student of Seonggyungwan (the National Confucian Academy), he submitted a memorial criticising the ruling faction, for which he was exiled to Hamgyeong-do province. After giving up official life, he lived away from politics on the great wealth inherited from his ancestors, building various pavilions and pagodas at Buyong-dong on Bogildo Island and at the newly discovered Geumswaedong, where he enjoyed a life of refined leisure. Geumswaedong contains the old fortress within which Yun Seon-do created a garden, along with the 22 place names he coined in the 'Geumswaedonggi'. It is a literary walking path that Yun Seon-do artificially developed to seek poetic inspiration, and the remains of building sites and a pond survive there. Hyeonsan-goseong, located within Geumswaedong, is presumed to have been built during the Goryeo period; the remains of three gates — east, west and north — along with fortress facilities at a water outlet, a watchtower site, building sites and an embankment survive within the fortress. This site was the cradle of Gosan Yun Seon-do's creation of poetry, and, with an old fortress that until now has been little known to the public still well preserved, it is a site of very great value both academically, for the study of Korean literature, and as cultural heritage.

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Where it is

Region

Haenam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Historic Site · 사적