Seok King Talhae Tangang River Remains

This is the birthplace of King Talhae, the fourth king of Silla (r. AD 57–80). Of Silla's three royal surnames — Bak, Seok and Kim — the following legend is told of King Talhae, the first king of the Seok line. The queen of the kingdom of Dapanguk, which lay more than a thousand ri to the northeast of Wae, became pregnant and after seven years gave birth to a huge egg. Considering this inauspicious, the people placed the egg in a chest together with treasures and set it adrift on the sea. When the chest reached the shores of Silla, an old woman found it and, on opening it, discovered a child inside, whom she took in and raised. Because magpies had cried out around the chest as it drifted, leading to its discovery, the character for magpie, 鵲, had its bird radical 鳥 removed to leave 昔 (seok), which became his surname; and because he had emerged by untying the chest, he was given the name Talhae. In AD 8 Talhae became the son-in-law of King Namhae, the second king of Silla, and in AD 57 he succeeded King Yuri to become the fourth king. According to the Samguk yusa, his birthplace is recorded as 'Ajinpo, in Haseoji-chon, Gyerim-dong'. In 1845, the eleventh year of King Heonjong of Joseon, land there was granted and the Seok clan erected a memorial stele and a stele pavilion at the site.

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Where it is

Region

Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물