Sungseongun Tomb

This is the tomb of Sungseongun, the fifth son of King Injo, the sixteenth ruler of Joseon. His personal name was Jing (徵), and his posthumous title was Hyogyeong (孝敬). In 1624, the second year of King Injo, he briefly took refuge in Gongju together with the king during the rebellion of Yi Gwal. Even after returning to the palace he continued to long for Gongju, and it is said that when he died in 1690, the sixteenth year of King Sukjong, he left instructions to be buried there. However, this could not be carried out at the time because of a law forbidding royal tombs from being located more than ninety li from the capital, and it was only later that his descendants moved his tomb to this site. A wall in the shape of the Korean letter ㄷ, open at the front, surrounds the tomb, and in front of it stand a memorial stone and a jangmyeongdeung, a stone lantern set before a tomb, flanked on either side by a pair of military-official statues and a pair of civil-official statues. The base of the burial mound is edged with granite kerbstones, and the inscription on the memorial stone shows that this is the joint burial of Sungseongun and his wife, made in 1766, the forty-second year of King Yeongjo.

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Where it is

Region

Gongju, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물