Location
Entrance of Daesin Park
A lotus-shaped stand is supported by a lower three-tiered stand. On top of the lotus-shaped stand is a monument 3.3 meters high.
The map of Korea is engraved on the cell along with the letters 忠武公 李舜臣 永慕碑 (Chung-mu-gong Yi-sun-sin Yeong-do-bi, Monument for Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin).
On September 1, 1592 (lunar calendar), while the Japanese invasion was still rampant, the was victorious, defending navy destroyed 100 enemy ships out of 470 at the Battle of Busanpo. Chungmu-dong and Chungmuro was named when Korean district names were restored in 1947 after Korea’s independence from Japan in honor of the great battle. The monument was originally to celebrate South Port’s completion. Fifty-two members of Chungmu-dong’s Senior Citizen Association removed the letters on the monument and engraved a map of the Korean Peninsula. Then Busan Mayor Bae Sang-gap wrote nine letters, 忠武公 李舜臣 永慕碑 (Chung-mu-gong Yi-sun-sin Yeong-do-bi, Monument for Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin), over the map.
The local senior citizen’s association has been regularly carrying out an ancestral ceremony in front of the monument every September 7 (lunar calendar) since the construction of the monument in 1957. When Chungmu-dong intersection was expanded in 1960, the monument was relocated to Busan National Maritime High School in Nambumin 3(sam)-dong. When the high school relocated to Gamcheon-dong of Saha-gu in May 1992, the Monument was moved once more to Daesin Park in September 1992.