Samseo Ochungnyeolsa Shrine

About this place

Samseo Ochungnyeolsa was designated a Jeollabuk-do Monument on August 30, 1982. It is a site gathering the relics of five loyal subjects (ochungsin) of the Haeju Oh clan who gave their lives for the country over three generations. Originally, the shrine (sachungsa) enshrined Oh Eung-jeong, his sons Uk and Jik, and Jik's son Bangeon; it was later renamed Ochungnyeolsa (Shrine of Five Loyalists) after additionally enshrining Oh Eung-jeong's son Dongryang. Oh Eung-jeong (1548-1597) was from Yongan-hyeon, Jeolla-do; he passed the military examination in 1574 and served in various posts. When the Jeongyujaeran (1597 Japanese invasion) broke out, he served as Jeolla-do Right Defense Commander and fought at the Battle of Namwon Castle alongside his sons Uk and Dongryang, but was overwhelmed and the three died heroically in a powder magazine explosion. Oh Jik (1574-1619) fought at the Liaodong-Shaha Battle under Commander Kang Hong-rip; when Kang surrendered to the Later Jin forces, Oh fought to the end at Bucha and died pierced by arrows. Oh Jik's son Bangeon (1588-1637) fought at Namhansanseong against the Manchu invaders during the Byeongja Horan (1636), and when King Injo suffered the humiliation of Samjeondo, threw himself into the Namhan River and drowned. A shrine was built in the 7th year of King Sukjong's reign (1681) to honor them.