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16 Ihwajang 17 Hamilton Shaw

32 Ihwajang 1-gil, Jongno-gu (Ihwadong) 47 Seooreung-ro, Eunpyeong-gu

“I was born in Korea, so
“Rhee Syngman, the first I am also Korean. How can
president of the Republic of I study comfortably while my
Korea who protected liberal country is at war? It's never
democracy on this land.” too late to study after peace
comes to my country.”

The first President
of the Republic
of Korea, Unam
Ihwajang, Seoul Syngman Rhee Statue of William Hamilton Shaw Grave of William Hamilton
Shaw in Yanghwajin

There is a statue of U.S. Navy Officer William Hamilton Shaw (Korean name: Seo Wiryum) at
Eunpyeong Peace Park in Nokbeon-dong Hill. This place is where he was killed during the
Second Battle of Seoul on September 22, 1950. He was 29 years old.
He was born in Pyongyang as the only son of U.S. Methodist missionaries during the
Entrance of Ihwajang Japanese colonial rule and graduated from Pyongyang Foreign School, but he was deported
to the United States and joined the U.S. Navy, and he participated as an officer in the
Normandy Landing Operation.
At the end of World War II, he was discharged from the military and returned to his second
country, Korea, and devoted as a military instructor and contributed to establishing the
Korea Naval Academy at Jinhae-gu. Shaw returned to the US and entered the doctoral
Unam sua Rhee Syngman Jogak Jeong (組閣亭) program in East Asian and Korean studies at Harvard University. Following the outbreak of
Memorial Museum the Korean War, Shaw rejoined the Navy and returned to Korea leaving a letter to his family,
“I cannot in good conscience return to Korea as a Christian missionary in peacetime if I am
Ihwajang is a private residence of former President Rhee Syngman who served as the first not first willing to be there to help the Koreans defend their
president, and was built in the 1920s. It is a large mansion consisting of a U-shaped hanok freedom in time of war.” He was good at the Korean language
and pavilions like Jogak Jeong (組閣亭) . It was the site of Grand Prince Inpyeong’s residence and geography. He helped General Douglas MacArthur during
and it was called Sindae (申臺) because medical scholar Gwang-han Shin lived during the the Battle of Incheon and he was killed on September 22,
reign of King Jungjong. On the rock behind the back door of Ihwajang, there are curved 1950 at the young age of 29 when he volunteered to lead a
letters “紅泉翠壁” written by Gang Saehwang which commemorates Sindae. Ihwajang itself reconnaissance team behind enemy lines in the push to retake
has nothing special but it has a historical meaning that the first president lived, and the first Seoul. His tombstone says, “Greater love has no one than this:
cabinet was formed in Jogak Jeong, a small annex on the southeastern hill. It is designated to lay down one's life for one’s friends. - John 15:13-”
as Seoul Metropolitan Government Monument No. 6. Memorial stone