Seoheung Kim Clan Samgangjeongmun Gate

This is a jeongmun — a commemorative gate granted by the state to honour loyal subjects, filial sons, and yeolbu (women of steadfast chastity) — bestowed to honour such figures produced by the Seoheung Kim clan. During the Japanese invasions of 1592–98, Kim Chung-su, a righteous-army leader, was fighting the Japanese forces when he was captured; his son Kim Ham went to the enemy camp to try to save his father and died there together with him. In 1606 a gate was granted honouring Kim Ham's filial conduct, and in 1700 a gate honouring Kim Chung-su's loyalty was likewise granted. Kim Ham's grandson's wife, of the Onyang Jeong clan, took her own life together with her two daughters during the Manchu invasion of 1636 in order to preserve her chastity from the enemy. Likewise, a woman of the Cheongju Han clan, when her husband died in 1731, considered it a failure of a wife's duty that she had borne no children, and died following her husband. In 1740 the state honoured the conduct of these two women with a gate for virtuous women. The Samgangjeongmun today has a wall enclosing a main building and an ilgakmun gate, with a stone monument standing outside the gate. The main building is a hip-and-gable-roofed structure four kan wide and one kan deep, bearing four plaques — Loyal Subject Gate, Filial Son Gate, and two Virtuous Woman Gates.

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Where it is

Region

Anseong, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물