Yuaesa Temple

This is a shrine dedicated to Yi Sun-sin (1545–1598), posthumously honoured with the title Chungmugong. Yi Sun-sin took up the post of magistrate of Jeongeup in the second month of 1589, the twenty-second year of King Seonjo, and two years later became the Left Naval Commander of Jeolla Province. In gratitude, the local Confucian scholars of the region built a shrine in his memory and named it Yuaesa. In 1824, the twenty-fourth year of King Sunjo, Yu Huijin, who had held the post of jibuigong, was enshrined together with him, and in 1854, the fifth year of King Cheoljong, Yu Chunpil, who had held the post of jubugong, was also enshrined there. In 1868, the fifth year of Emperor Gojong, the shrine was demolished under the order abolishing seowon (Confucian academies), and a stele pavilion and stele were erected on the site instead. When the pavilion was built, a platform was made on the hillside, but it has since been dismantled. Three steles inscribed with the names of Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin, Jibuigong Yu Huijin and Jubugong Yu Chunpil now stand side by side, with Yi Sun-sin's stele at the centre. The shrine was for a time known as Chungnyeolsa, but it was later renamed Yuaesa, the name it still bears today.

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Where it is

Region

Jeongeup, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물