Namgeunseok

Namgeunseok refers to a natural rock shaped like a male phallus, or a rock carved and erected in that form; it is an object of phallic worship within Korean folk belief. Standing to the west of the entrance to Huinbawi village, this Namgeunseok is one of the village's twelve dangsan, shrine sites dedicated to guardian deities, and is also known by the nickname "Jajibau". It is 1.35 m tall, rising long and straight from a square base; its top has been shaped slightly pointed and then rounded off. It is said that about 300 years ago a man named Bak Ing-geol, who helped many people in hardship, erected this stone. On the third day of the first lunar month the villagers gather to hold a rite praying for a bountiful harvest and warding off misfortune, and it is said that a woman who prays here for a child will bear a son. Sexuality, which underlay abundant productivity in agrarian society, was given form in such phallic stones and held sacred, becoming in this way part of the people's own indigenous belief.

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Where it is

Region

Jeongeup, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산