Daeseong-dong Tumuli
The Daeseong-dong Tumuli in Gimhae offer evidence of Korean ancient history around the 4th century CE
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Planning the visit
Daeseong-dong Tumuli is stop 4 of 9 on the Gaya Culture Route.
The stamp is not at the site itself but at the Information Desk at the Tombs Museum, so check the opening hours of that building rather than the site.
The two closest stamp points are Gimhae National Museum, 0.2 km away, and Tomb of King Suro at 1.0 km. All three fit into one day.
Details
- Address
- 126, Gayaui-gil, Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do
- Stamp zone
- Information Desk at the Tombs Museum
- Phone
- 055-330-3924
- Coordinates
- 35.24175, 128.87242
What the campaign says about it
Daeseong-dong, Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, is home to several tombs from the Geumgwan Gaya period around the 3rd to 5th centuries CE. A couple of emergency excavations were conducted between 1990 and April 1991 when parts of the tumuli’s structure were discovered by some farmers plowing the fields. In the first round of excavations, two royal tombs of Bon Gaya (Geumgwan Gaya) from the late 4th century to the early 5th century CE were excavated and investigated, while in the second round of excavations, 37 tombs, including a number of tombs of queens from the late 3rd to early 5th centuries CE, were excavated and investigated. These tumuli proved to be invaluable resources in reconstructing Korean ancient history during the 4th century or later, which had been a historical vacuum to that point. The 20 ancillary burial tombs not only exhibit different structural characteristics depending on the period and prevailing trends, but also have features that are similar to those of northern nomadic peoples such as the coffin graves of the Han Dynasty style, coffin graves in Nakrang, the Pazyryk tombs in southern Siberia, and Noinulinsky burial mounds in northern Mongolia.
Quoted from the Visit Korean Heritage Campaign.
Getting there
Get off at the KTX Gupo station → Walk to Gupo station (Busan subway line no. 3, exit no. 3) → Take bus no. 1004 at Gupo station → Get off at the NH Gimhae-si Branch → Walk for 15 minutes
Photographs
Photographs supplied by the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation.