Jinju City Inspects Construction Site of 'Jinju Parisjangseo Monument' Scheduled for Completion in May

Mayor Jo Gyu-il is inspecting the construction site of Paris Jangseobi.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju Mayor Cho Gyu-il and city officials visited the construction site of the Paris Jangseo Monument (巴里長書碑) being built in Sugok-myeon on the 18th to check the progress of the project.

The Jinju Paris Jangseo Monument is being erected to commemorate Jinju Confucian scholars Ha Gyeom-jin, Ha Bong-su, Lee Su-an, and others who participated in the Paris Jangseo Movement, which sent a petition for independence to the Paris Peace Conference in France in May 1919. It is scheduled to be completed in May.

The Paris Jangseo Movement was a Confucian independence movement in which 137 national Confucian representatives, including Kwak Jong-seok, sent a lengthy petition of 2,647 characters to the Paris Peace Conference in France in May 1919.

The Paris Jangseo Monument is being built on a 200㎡ site in front of Deokgok Seodang in Sagok-ri, Sugok-myeon, where Hoe-bong Ha Gyeom-jin devoted himself to educating future scholars. The monument will be 2.7 meters high and 1.5 meters wide.

A city official said, “Jinju is historically a city of patriotic loyalty, and the activities of Confucian scholars developed into various forms of independence movements until liberation. With the construction of the Paris Jangseo Monument, another patriotic historical site will be born in Jinju.”

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