Gobu Government Office Site

This is the site of the Gobu government office, which was moved here from Seonghwangsan Mountain in 1765, the 41st year of King Yeongjo, and remained here until it was incorporated into Jeongeup County under the 1914 reorganisation of prefectures and counties. It is the historic site where, on 10 January 1894, peasant forces led by Jeon Bong-jun occupied the office during the Gobu Uprising — the event that triggered the Donghak Peasant Revolution — and drove out corrupt officials. When Gobu Elementary School was built, all the government office buildings were demolished, and the site has remained as such ever since, plainly showing the brutality of the Japanese colonial authorities, who sought to distort and erase the historical facts of traditional cultural heritage and the Donghak Peasant Revolution. Stone objects visible at one side of the school playground, such as cornerstones and platform stones, testify that this was once a historic site.

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Where it is

Region

Jeongeup, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물