Suncheon Waeseong

Standing on a low range of hills at Sinseong-ri, Haeryong-myeon, Suncheon-si, Jeollanam-do, this is a stone fortress built with a double line of walls, an inner and an outer. It is a waeseong (a Japanese-style fortress) built in 1597, during the Jeongyu War, by the Japanese general Konishi Yukinaga, to serve both as a forward base for the Japanese army's attack on the Honam region and as its final line of defence. Suncheon Waeseong is also known as Waegyo or Yegyo (曳橋); the Japanese call it Suncheonseong, and until it was removed from the national register of Historic Sites on 1 January 1997 it had been known as "Seungju Sinseong-ri Fortress." Each of the outer and inner walls was built in three layers, but only the inner wall's remains are clearly visible, while the outer wall's are not; traces of a moat dug around the fortress also survive. It was here, in 1598, that the greatest battle was fought between the allied forces of Joseon and Ming China and the Japanese army led by Konishi Yukinaga, and it is also the storied place from which Admiral Yi Sun-sin lured Konishi Yukinaga's fleet into the waters off Noryang and won a great victory.

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Where it is

Region

Suncheon, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물