Gimjongseo Historic Remains

This is the site of the house where General Gim Jongseo (pen name Jeolje) was born and where his family lived for generations; it lies adjacent to Uidang Elementary School. Since the school's founding in 1927, the site has been maintained up to the present as a place for students' history education, and the land was secured and managed when Uidang Elementary School was built. Residents of the natural village of Bigyesil called this plot "the site of the prime minister's house," and after the Suncheon Gim clan of Jeolje was wiped out, the site remained preserved with no other dwelling ever built on it, coming to be known as "Gim Jongseo's birthplace." The birthplace site, managed mainly by Uidang Elementary School and its students up to the 1960s, was designated a Chungcheongnam-do cultural heritage material in 1981, after Gongju City erected the "Stele of the Historic Site of General Chungikgong Jeolje Gim Jongseo" and tidied the surrounding area.

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Where it is

Region

Gongju, Chungnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료