Historic Site Related to Yun Bong-gil, Yesan

Basic information

Designation

Historic Site No.229

Category

유적지

Designated year

1972

Location

예산군, 충청남도— 충남 예산군 덕산면 시량리 산40-1번지

Coordinates

36.687024, 126.652791

This place where patriot Yun Bong-gil was born and grew up is appointed as a site to commemorate his struggle for independence, the spirit of sacrifice of victims, and his heroic deed at Honggu Park in Shanghai. There are two houses here. One is Gwanghyeondang House, in which he was born (it means “a house where light appears”), and the other is Jeohandang House (it means “house for saving Korea”), where he grew up and lived before leaving for China. He strove to gather new knowledge and culture at the same time making efforts for the renewal of agricultural communities and the stamping out of illiteracy through the organization of night schools and reading clubs in farming villages. In 1932 he threw a bomb at the scene of a ceremony for victory in the battle of Shanghai and the birthday of King of Japan in Honggu Park in Shanghai. Koreans called this “the 4.29 heroic deed” (4.29 means the 29th of April). He was arrested at once, sentenced to death and executed. At that time, he was 25 years old. A memorial tower was erected in 1965 and the Chunguisa Shrine was built in 1968 to commemorate his accomplishments. In 1970, his birth and childhood homes were restored to their original condition, an exhibition building for was opened to house his relics, and a head office of the agricultural village edification movement was built. Chunguisa is a shrine to Yun Bong-gil, a faithful and loyal person, and his portrait was enshrined here while it is utilized as a place of history education with an exhibition of paintings of his shooting and his serving agricultural communities. Articles left by him were designated as National Treasure No. 568, and these are displayed in the exhibition hall. The Maeheon Cultural Festival commemorating Yun Bong-gil is held on the 29th of April every year.

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