Chaesansa Temple

Chaesansa is a shrine built to honour the achievements of Choe Ik-hyeon (1833–1906), a Confucian scholar of the late Joseon period. The memorial tablet of his grandson, Choe Myeon-sik, an independence activist of the modern era, was later enshrined alongside his. Choe Ik-hyeon advocated wijeongcheoksa sasang (a Confucian political and ethical doctrine of "upholding the right and rejecting the wrong"), opposed the forced conclusion of the 1905 Eulsa Treaty, by which Japan stripped Korea of its diplomatic rights, and raised a righteous army in Sunchang; he was arrested, exiled to Tsushima Island, and died there after a hunger strike. Chaesansa was built to honour Choe Ik-hyeon's devoted concern for the nation, but it was repeatedly demolished by the Japanese and rebuilt by Confucian scholars. After Korea's liberation, the building was restored in 1947, but as it later deteriorated, it was dismantled and rebuilt in 1975. The shrine measures three kan (bays) across the front and three kan on the side, and its roof is a gable roof which, seen from the side, forms the shape of the character 人, meaning "person". In front of the shrine stands a sotsam-mun, a three-bay gate in which the roof of the central bay is raised higher than the two side bays.

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Where it is

Region

Pocheon, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물