Manseokboji Site

A bo (洑) is a place where a levee is built and a stream dammed to supply water to paddy fields. Farmers had originally installed such weirs on the upper reaches of the Jeongeupcheon and Taeincheon streams, but in 1893, the thirtieth year of Emperor Gojong, Jo Byeong-gap, magistrate of Gobu County, forcibly mobilised farmers to build a new weir, the Manseokbo, at the point downstream where the two streams merge. After the Manseokbo was completed, the authorities extorted large quantities of rice from farmers that autumn under the name of suse, a tax for use of the new weir, and the outraged farmers rose up in 1894 under Jeon Bong-jun, an uprising that became the starting point of the Donghak Peasant Revolution. The Manseokbo was destroyed by the farmers, and today only traces of the former levee remain. In 1973 a monument was erected here to commemorate this site, the source of the Donghak Peasant Revolution.

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Where it is

Region

Jeongeup, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물