Songgapjo Yugi Stele, Okcheon

This stele was erected in 1914 by his descendants to commemorate the site of the house where Song Gapjo (1574–1628) once lived. Song Gapjo was a civil official in the reign of King Injo of Joseon; his clan seat was Eunjin, his courtesy name was Wonyu and his pen name Dunong, and he was the father of Song Si-yeol. In 1617, the ninth year of King Gwanghaegun, he passed the lower state examination, but while serving as a Confucian student at Seonggyungwan he opposed the confinement of Queen Dowager Inmok and, as a result, was struck from the roll of students and barred from an official career. After the Injo Restoration of 1623 he served as a minor custodian official at Gangneung, and the following year, during Yi Gwal's Rebellion, he escorted the king's carriage to Gongju. In 1627, when a peace settlement was reached between Joseon and Later Jin during the Jeongmyo War, he resigned his post in indignation. Song Gapjo had originally lived in Hoedeok, but in 1594, the twenty-seventh year of King Seonjo, he moved to this site and married into the Gwak clan of Seonsan, with whom he had his son Song Si-yeol. The stele is of the common type, fitted with a hipped-and-gabled roof stone, and measures 116 cm in height, 38 cm in width and 20 cm in thickness.

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Okcheon, Chungbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료