Yungongdan Altar

This altar was raised to honour the loyalty of General Yun Heung-sin, the Dadae Cheomsa (commander of Dadae garrison), who died fighting to the end during the Imjin War; at its centre stands a stele recording his military achievements. In 1592, the 25th year of King Seonjo, after Japanese forces that had landed at Busan captured Busanjinseong, they attacked Dadaejin; Yun Heung-sin, together with his younger brother Heung-je and the troops and civilians under his command, held them off until he was killed in battle. Even after the war ended, this episode remained unknown until 1761, the 37th year of King Yeongjo, when Jo Eom, then governor of Gyeongsang Province, discovered records of the story and reported them to the court, whereupon his loyalty finally came to light. In 1765, the 41st year of King Yeongjo, Yi Hae-mun, then serving as Dadae Cheomsa, built the altar and fixed the fourteenth day of the fourth lunar month as the date of the memorial rite. It originally stood to the east of Dadae Gaekgwan, the government guest house where Yun Heung-sin died, but was moved to its present site in 1970, and the residents of the neighbourhood continue to hold the memorial rite to this day.

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Where it is

Region

Saha-gu, Busan

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물