🏟️ Pukkwan Victory Monument

The Pukkwan Victory Monument is a stone stele written in Korean Hanmun commemorating a series of Korean military victories between 1592 and 1594 against the invading army of Japan during the Imjin War. First erected in 1707 in Kilju in what is now North Korea, it was subsequently taken to Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea during the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. It was eventually discovered on the grounds of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, prompting a Korean outcry that it be returned. In a ceremony on 12 October 2005, it was turned over to officials from South Korea, who returned it to its original location, which is now in North Korea.