Oeto-ri Twin Stele, Hapcheon

These are two steles standing side by side inside a single stele pavilion in the village of Oeto-ri. Viewed from the front, the one on the left is the Stele for a Filial Son, and the one on the right is the White Stele (baekbi), so called because its inscription has worn away so badly that the writing is almost invisible. Both steles consist of a stele body set on a base stone and topped with a capstone. The Stele for a Filial Son commemorates the filial conduct of Yi On, pen name Yeongmojae. At the end of the Goryeo dynasty, Yi Seong-gye, while touring this region, heard of Yi On's filial conduct and reported it to the king; in 1383, the ninth year of King U, the king ordered the magistrate of Goseong to erect a stele pavilion and stele. On the front of the stele is carved "Hyoja-ri," meaning "the village of the filial son," in honour of his conduct, while the back records that Yi On lived beside his father's grave for three years after his father's death, and also notes that only the original stele body had survived until the base stone and capstone were newly made in 1686, the twelfth year of King Sukjong. After the stele was erected, it was moved to the front of Wondong village, a place with heavy foot traffic, so that many people would learn of his filial conduct; during the Japanese colonial period it was moved again to its present location.

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Where it is

Region

Hapcheon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산