Tarugak Pavilion
4 Jangjaeul-ro, Cheoncheon-myeon, Jangsu-gun, Jeollabuk-do
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In 1678 (the 4th year of King Sukjong), the county magistrate of Jangsu, Jo Jong-myeon, was riding to the Jeonju provincial government office when his horse was startled by the sound of a pheasant on the steep slope of Jangcheok in Jangpan-ri, Cheoncheon-myeon. The horse fell into a pond, killing the magistrate. His attendant, a government runner surnamed Baek, bit his own finger, painted a horse and pheasant in blood on the cliff face, wrote the characters 'tarubi' (meaning 'shed tears'), and then jumped in after the magistrate, dying in loyalty to him. Moved by this attendant's righteousness, Jangsu County Magistrate Choi Su-hyeong erected a stele and memorial pavilion at that spot in 1802, calling it the Tarubi (Tears-Shedding Stele).