Yi Ik Teacher's Tomb | Attraction Guide | K-Travel Mate

Yi Ik Teacher's Tomb is located at Cheomseongchong, where the great Silhak scholar Seongho Yi Ik lived his entire life and left a significant academic legacy. In 1985, Yi Ik was selected as one of ten scholars in the ideological category among those who illuminated Korea's national culture, leading to the maintenance of the tomb area. In 1988, the shrine (a house where ancestral tablets are kept) Cheomseongsa and the memorial hall Gyeonghojae (a building for rites beside the tomb) were completed. Furthermore, in 2002, the Seongho Museum was built opposite the tomb area to honor the scholar's Silhak ideas. Yi Ik's tomb is located on a sunny hill surrounded by a pine forest and is a joint burial with his two wives, featuring mourning stone statues, a top stone, and an incense burner stone. The shrine is open on weekdays, and inside the triple gate is Gyeonghojae, with Cheomseongsa, a three-bay building housing Yi Ik's portrait, located behind it. Nestled among urban residential areas, the modest Yi Ik Teacher's Tomb is like a cozy garden blending the beauty of ginkgo and pine trees.