Yi Su-il Grave, Chungju

This is the grave of General Yi Su-il (1554–1632), pen name Eunam, a military official of mid-Joseon. He passed the military service examination in 1583, the 16th year of King Seonjo's reign, and after serving in posts at the Hullyeonwon, the Military Training Institute, became a seonjeongwan, a royal herald officer. During the Japanese invasions of 1592 he raised a righteous army as magistrate of Janggi-hyeon and achieved great merit. He went on to serve as magistrate of Miryang and as Left Naval Commander of Gyeongsang Province, and during the second Japanese invasion of 1597 he repelled the Japanese forces as magistrate of Seongju. When Yi Gwal's Rebellion broke out in 1624, the second year of King Injo's reign, he became Army Commander of Pyeongan-do and concurrently Deputy Commander-in-Chief, and dealt the rebel forces a heavy defeat. His grave, in Oseok-ri, Geumga-myeon, Chungju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, is a joint burial with his wife of the Jeonju Yi clan, the base of its mound faced with granite. In front of the mound stand a stone offering table and a pair of dongjaseok, stone figures of child attendants, and to the right stands a memorial stele whose text was composed by Kim Jip and written in the calligraphy of Song Jun-gil. Below the grave stands a sindobi, a marble stele erected beside a road near the tomb of a king or high official to commemorate his lifetime achievements, put up in 1667, the eighth year of King Hyeonjong's reign, and 50 m away stands a shrine.

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Where it is

Region

Chungju, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물