Pungsan Sim Clan Munjeonggong Branch Burial Ground

This is the tomb of Sim Jeong (1471-1531), a civil official of the mid-Joseon period. Within the burial ground are more than sixty tombs of the Pungsan Sim clan, including those of his sons Sim Sa-son and Sim Sa-sun and his grandson Sim Su-gyeong. Sim Jeong passed the saengwonsi (lower civil service examination) in 1495, the first year of King Yeonsangun's reign, and after holding several offices was enfeoffed as Lord Hwacheon (花川君) for his service in the 1506 restoration that placed King Jungjong on the throne. In 1519, the fourteenth year of King Jungjong, he used Royal Consort Gyeongbin Park to spread word within the palace that the Jo clan (趙氏) was monopolising state power, and moved the king to launch the Gimyo Purge, through which he eventually seized control of the government. However, when the plot by Lady Park of Gyeongju to place a curse on the Crown Prince came to light, he was exiled to Gangseo, and, together with Yi Hang and Kim Geuk-pip, was branded one of the 'Three Traitors of the Sinmyo Year' (辛卯三奸) and put to death. Sim Jeong's son Sim Sa-son (1493-1528) was a civil official of the early Joseon period. In 1523, the eighteenth year of King Jungjong, as an official of the Border Defence Council he distinguished himself in a campaign against the Jurchen tribes of the northwest and rose through many offices. Sim Sa-son's son Sim Su-gyeong (1516-1599) was a military official of the early Joseon period who came first in the civil service examination in 1546, the first year of King Myeongjong, and went on to hold various offices. In 1562, the seventeenth year of King Myeongjong, while serving as governor of Gyeonggi Province during the relocation of King Jungjong's tomb, he was dismissed from office for failing to have a bridge built across the Hangang River for the state's great funeral bier to cross. He later served as Inspector-General (Daesaheon) and as governor of all Eight Provinces, was recommended as an Incorrupt Official (Cheongbaengni), and died in 1598, the thirty-first year of King Seonjo. Of the more than sixty tombs of the Pungsan Sim clan, the tombs, gravestones and offering tables of these four individuals, judged to be of heritage value, have been designated and are protected as heritage.

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Where it is

Region

Gangseo-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산