Won Chung-gap Burial Ground, Wonju

Won Chung-gap (1250–1321) was a military official of Goryeo, a native of Wonju whose ancestral seat was also Wonju; his posthumous title was Chungsuk. As a hyanggong jinsa (a scholar who had passed the state examination through local recommendation), while serving in the Wonju Byeolcho (a local elite military unit), he inflicted major defeats on the invading Hapdan forces over ten engagements after they besieged Chiaksanseong Fortress in 1291, the seventeenth year of King Chungnyeol. In recognition of Won Chung-gap's achievements, Wonju was elevated to Ikheung Dohobu (a protectorate-level administrative district), and again in 1308 to Wonju-mok (a prefecture), while the region was exempted from various corvée labour and miscellaneous tribute duties for three years. Won Chung-gap himself was transferred six times and rose to Right Vice Minister of the Samsa (the finance ministry). Under King Chungseon he became Supreme General (sanghogun) of the Eungyang Division of the royal guards, and for his merit in repelling the Hapdan forces he was named a Meritorious Subject for Loyalty, Valour, Quelling Rebellion, and Illuminating the State in 1319, the sixth year of King Chungsuk. Won Chung-gap died in 1321, the eighth year of King Chungsuk, at the age of seventy-two. A shrine to him, Wonchunggapsa, was built within Yeongwonsanseong Fortress on Chiaksan Mountain, where rites were held; in 1669, the tenth year of King Hyeonjong, a new shrine was built with Won Chung-gap as the principal honoree, and Kim Je-gap and Won Ho enshrined alongside him. On the seventh day of the intercalary second month of 1670, the eleventh year of King Hyeonjong, it received a royal charter under the name Chungnyeolsa Shrine.

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Wonju, Gangwon

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료