Simsan Kim Chang-suk Birthplace

This is the birthplace of the late Joseon Confucian scholar Simsan Kim Chang-suk (1879–1962). He was a Confucian scholar, independence activist and politician from Seongju in Gyeongsangbuk-do. When the Eulsa Treaty was forced on Korea by the Japanese in 1905, he travelled to Seoul with Yi Seung-hui to submit a memorial to the throne denouncing Yi Wan-yong and the other traitors who had sold out the nation. After the March First Movement broke out, he drafted a petition appealing for Korean independence, co-signed by some 130 people, and sent it to the Paris Peace Conference. In 1953 he brought together Confucian academy foundations scattered across the country to secure approval for Sungkyunkwan to be raised to full university status, and became the first president of Sungkyunkwan University. His writings include the poetry and prose collections Simsan manch'o and Byeogong manch'o. The birthplace burned down when he was twenty-two and was rebuilt in 1901. It is not known exactly when the earlier building had been put up, but the family appears to have lived on the site for generations, and it is said that he was born here in the 16th year of Emperor Gojong's reign (1879).

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Where it is

Region

Seongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물