Gim Cheongpung Buwongun Burial Ground

This is the burial ground of Gim Umyeong (1619–1675), posthumous title Chungik, son of Chief State Councillor Gim Yuk and father-in-law of King Hyeonjong of Joseon. He passed the jinsa licentiate examination in 1642, the twentieth year of King Injo, and went on to serve as chambong (junior custodian) at Gangneung, sema, yeongdollyeongbusa (head of the Office of Royal In-Laws), and owidochonggwan (commander-in-chief of the Five Military Commands), among other posts. According to tradition, when Gim Umyeong died, the court, wishing to honour him with the treatment due a buwongun (a title granted to the father of a queen), granted a burial site at Jeung-ri, Sindong-myeon, Chunseong-gun, in what is now Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province. As his coffin was being carried upriver along the Hangang River by boat, the boat stopped moving when it reached the river in front of the present burial site, and a sudden gust of wind blew the myeongjeong — a banner recording the deceased's rank, office and surname in white characters on a crimson ground — up onto the hillside. When people went to where the banner had landed, they found it to be an auspicious site, so the originally granted land was given up and the grave was made here instead. Apart from royal tombs, burial grounds in Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province do not usually have surrounding walls, which makes this tomb unusual in having one. The gravestone is inscribed in King Sukjong's own hand. The sindobi (a stele set up beside the road near a tomb to commemorate the lifetime achievements of a king or high official) was composed by Yi Minseo, who had served as Minister of Taxation, with the calligraphy by Yun Sim, while the seal-script heading was the work of Gim Manjung, whose pen name was Seopo.

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Where it is

Region

Chuncheon, Gangwon

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물