Kim Bok-han Tomb

This is the tomb of Kim Bok-han (1860-1924), pen name Jisan, a civil official and righteous army leader of the late Joseon period. After passing the special civil service examination in 1892, he became a Hongmungwan gyori and went on to hold a number of other posts. In 1894 he rose to Seungjeongwon seungji, but when Japanese interference began with the Gabo Reform in June of that year, he resigned his post and returned to his hometown. In August, following the assassination of Empress Myeongseong, he raised a righteous army together with Yi Seol, Yi Geun-ju and others, but was arrested by the Hongju magistrate Yi Seung-u. After being released by special pardon of Emperor Gojong, he cut himself off from worldly affairs and devoted himself to training younger scholars, eventually gathering several hundred disciples. When the Eulsa Treaty was forced upon Korea by the Japanese colonial authorities, he submitted a memorial demanding that the traitorous officials be beheaded, and was imprisoned for it; in 1910, as a representative of the Confucian scholars, he sent a long letter to the Paris Peace Conference appealing for Korea's independence, and was again imprisoned. He was released after some ninety days on grounds of ill health, and as the number of his disciples grew he built a lecture hall called Injijae and devoted himself to training the next generation until his death in 1924. His tomb and shrine stand in Seobu-myeon, Hongseong-gun, with a stone monument and an offering table set before the grave.

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Where it is

Region

Hongseong, Chungnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료