Photo: Seoul Parks (Seoul Metropolitan Government)
Sayuksin Park
사육신공원
Park · Dongjak-gu
The park holds the graves of seven loyal subjects of King Danjong — Ha Wi-ji, Seong Sam-mun, Yu Seong-won, Yi Gae, Yu Eung-bu, Park Paeng-nyeon and Kim Mun-gi — who held rank and life as lightly as straw, plotted to restore Danjong, were exposed by an informer and executed by dismemberment.
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