Jo Heon Remains Chumo Stele

This stele was erected to commemorate the loyalty of Jo Heon (1544–1592), who served as a righteous army commander during the Japanese invasions of Korea. He was born in Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do; his clan seat was Baekcheon and his pen name was Jungbong. When the Japanese invasions broke out in 1592, he raised a righteous army in Okcheon, North Chungcheong, and distinguished himself in recovering Cheongju fortress, but he died in battle at Geumsan together with the 700 righteous soldiers under his command. In 1604, the thirty-seventh year of King Seonjo, he was posthumously named a first-class Seonmu Wonjong merit subject; in 1734, the tenth year of King Yeongjo, he was posthumously honoured with the office of Chief State Councillor; and in 1883, the twentieth year of Emperor Gojong, he was enshrined in the Confucian Shrine. In 1617, the ninth year of King Gwanghaegun, many scholars, noting that Gimpo held Jo Heon's former residence, erected on that old site a stele in the bangbuwonsu style — a stele body with a rounded top set on a square base — and recorded on it his lifelong words and deeds and the history of his raising a righteous army. The inscription was composed by Yi Jeong-gu and written in calligraphy by Kim Hyeon-seong. In 1648, the twenty-sixth year of King Injo, local Confucian scholars took the lead in building a seowon, a Confucian academy, on the site of Jo Heon's former residence, and the memorial stele accordingly came to stand within the academy grounds.

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Where it is

Region

Gimpo, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산