Uiam Hermitage, Jinju

Uiam is the rock on which Nongae embraced a Japanese general and died for her country. On the twenty-ninth day of the sixth month of 1593, the twenty-sixth year of King Seonjo, the Second Battle of Jinjuseong Fortress during the Imjin War ended in the fortress's fall, and some seventy thousand soldiers and civilians perished. To avenge the nation, Nongae lured a Japanese general onto this rock and died there together with him. To honour Nongae's spirit of self-sacrifice, the people of Yeongnam named the rock Uiam, meaning 'the rock of righteousness'. In 1629, the seventh year of King Injo, the Jinju scholar Jeong Dae-ryung (1599–1661) carved the characters 義巖 (Uiam) into the rock's western face, and on its southern face is an inscription reading Uiam, said to have been written by Han Mong-sam (1598–1662). The base of the rock measures 3.65 m by 3.3 m. On the rock face beside it is carved a verse: 'A long river flows on in a single ribbon; her righteous fury will endure for a thousand autumns.'

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Where it is

Region

Jinju, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물