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61 Hanseo Namgoong Eok Memorial Museum 62 Cheongok Church

667 Hanseo-ro Seo-myeon Hongcheon-gun 1081-8 Cheongok-dong, Donghae-si

“Hongcheon Hanseo Namgoong Eok Memorial Museum, a sacred place of
Cheongok Church is the mother church of Exhorter Choi In-gyu, who was martyred after
Mugunghwa filled with the determination of independence.”
refusing to worship Shinto shrine in 1941, and there is a monument to his martyrdom.
After one year of imprisonment, Exhorter Choi In-gyu died in prison on Dec. 16, 1942.
Upon hearing the news of his death, Choi Jong-dae, a nephew-in-law, went to Daejeon
to cremate his body and brought back the remains. The funeral was not properly held
and the remains were buried in the hills. In October of the year of liberation, a tomb was
prepared at the entrance of Samcheok Church. In March of the following year, the ‘Choi
In-gyu Martyrdom Monument’ was erected on the tomb under the name of six churches in
Samcheok District.
Hanseo Namgoong Eok Memorial Muesum After that, only the monument was moved around due to urban planning, and the remains
had been under the church wall and moved to Cheongok Church when the ‘Choi In-gyu
Mogok Chapel
Martyrdom Monument’ was established at Cheongok Church in November 1986. The
church members made a monument after the shape of a pulpit that was made and used by
When you go to Mogok-ri, Seomyeon, Hongcheon-gun, there is a memorial hall, a
Exohorter Choi In-gyu himself. When you go to Cheongok Church, there is a pulpit made
chapel, and a grave dedicated to Namgoong Eok, who practiced love for the country with
by him during his lifetime. There is also a monument of Exhorter Choi In-gyu at Samcheok
a passionate heart than anyone else during the Japanese occupation. Namgoong Eok was
Jeil Church.
one of the representative enlightenment groups, who was more interested in education
than politics, and taught enlightenment and patriotism at Heunghwa School established by Cheongok Church
Min Yeong-hwan. He joined the Independence Association and participated in the reform
movement, but when the Independence Association Movement failed, Namgoong-Eok
jumped into the media. Nam Gung-eok, who took office as president of the Hwangseong
Sinmun using his experience of editing Tongnip Sinmun (daily newspaper in Han-gul) , exposed
Japan’s discussion of the division of the Korean Peninsula with Russia in 1902, revealing
the Japanese imperialist desire to invade the country. As a result, he was severely tortured
and became weak, and resigned from president of the Hwangseong Sinmun.
When Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905 was signed in 1905, Namgoong Eok believed that
the only way to live is to be faithful to what each person had to do in his or her own
right, and devoted all his energy to fostering patriotism and enhancing women’s rights
through the Mugunghwa (Korean National Flower) . However, because of this, he was removed
from his teaching post, and he moved down to Mogok-ri to build a chapel and started
a Sunday school. Principal Namgoong Eok started growing and distributing 70,000 Only God, who is in control of the life and the
Mugunghwa seedlings in the backyard of the school. However, Namgoong Eok’s lonely death of mankind, is the object of worship,
national movement came to the end in 1933 with the events of Sipjaga dang (Cross party) of and no other god is the object of worship.
Mugunghwa. Nam Gung Eok, who became ill after being tortured by the Japanese police, The Ten Commandments clearly state that
passed away in 1939 at the age of 77. However, his spirit of Mugunghwa will survive in our “You shall have no other gods before me.”
Choi In-gyu Martyrdom Monument
hearts and be with our national history forever.