Pyeongtaek City Promotes Registration of Sunmalsan and Buyongsan Air-Raid Shelters as Cultural Heritage

Estimated to Have Been Created During Japanese Occupation
Inaugural Report Meeting for Academic Survey Service Held

Pyeongtaek City in Gyeonggi Province is promoting the registration of air-raid shelters within its jurisdiction, which are presumed to have been constructed during the Japanese colonial period, as cultural heritage sites.

On the 5th, Pyeongtaek City announced that it held a kickoff meeting on the 4th for an academic investigation project to examine the characteristics of the Seonmalsan and Buyongsan air-raid shelters and to secure basic data.

Participants are pledging to successfully carry out the project at the kickoff meeting for the academic survey service of the air-raid shelters in Seonmalsan and Buyongsan, Pyeongtaek.
[Photo by Pyeongtaek City]

This academic investigation aims to clarify the construction period and characteristics of the air-raid shelters and to explore their historical context. In particular, the Seonmalsan air-raid shelter in Hamjeong-ri has recently been newly highlighted through the efforts of local historians, raising the need for an academic investigation.

Professor Changmo Ahn of Gyeonggi University, who is in charge of this academic investigation project, plans to examine the connection between the Pyeongtaek airbase and air-raid shelters built by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Pacific War. In addition, the investigation will proceed with the possibility in mind that additional air-raid shelter facilities may exist on Buyongsan and Seonmalsan beyond those currently known.

Through this project, Pyeongtaek City plans to confirm the characteristics and structures of each air-raid shelter and secure basic data, and based on this, it intends to consider registering them as registered cultural heritage sites.

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