Kim Ok-gyun Remains

This is the site of the house where Kim Ok-gyun lived until the age of six, and a stone recording his life stands here. Originally, together with Kim Ok-gyun's birth house, eight or nine other dwellings formed a small village on this spot, but all were destroyed by fire. Kim Ok-gyun (1851-1894) was a statesman of the late Joseon period who championed the Enlightenment ideology, calling for "reform from above." In 1884, the 21st year of Emperor Gojong, he launched the Gapsin Coup, but it failed within three days and he fled into exile in Japan. In 1894 he advocated Samhwajuui, a doctrine of tripartite cooperation among Korea, China and Japan, and while visiting Shanghai to meet the powerful Qing statesman Li Hongzhang he was assassinated by Hong Jong-u, an assassin sent by the conservative faction. His body, seized by the Qing court and the conservative faction, was brought back to Korea and subjected to dismemberment at Yanghwajin. After the Gabo Reform of 1894 brought an Enlightenment Party cabinet to power, his charge of treason was pardoned following a petition by Prime Minister Kim Hong-jip, and in 1910 he was posthumously conferred the post of Chief Scholar of the Gyujanggak, the royal library. He was first buried at the Aoyama Foreign Cemetery in Tokyo, but in 1914 his adopted son Kim Yeong-jin, then magistrate of Asan County, moved his remains to Asan-ri, Yeongin-myeon, Asan, Chungcheongnam-do, where he was buried together with his wife, Lady Yu.

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Where it is

Region

Gongju, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물