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The city of Yeosu consists of the Yeosu peninsula as well as 365 islands [1] (48 inhabited, 317 uninhabited). Being midway along the southern coast of South Korea, it is flanked by Namhae County in South Gyeongsang Province to the east with a natural waterway, and the Bay of Suncheon to the west and northwest, the city of Suncheon sprawling along its banks.
Nurhaci's descendants would become masters of China as founders of the Qing Dynasty in a few decades' time, after invading Korea in 1627 and 1637. Yi assumed his new post at Yeosu on the 13th day of the 2nd lunar month of 1591 (March 13, 1591). From there, he was able to undertake a buildup of the regional navy, which was later used to confront ...
The Yeosu-Suncheon rebellion, also known as the Yeo-Sun incident (Yeo-Sun an abbreviation of Yeosu and Suncheon ), was a rebellion that began in October 1948 and mostly ended by November of the same year. However, pockets of resistance lasted through to 1957, almost 10 years later. It is often called a "rebellion incident", but it is used as a ...
The Hamel Museum in Yeosu, South Korea. There are several museums and monuments to Hamel in South Korea. A museum exists in Gangjin, [13] [14] an exhibition hall shaped like a ship exists on Jeju Island, [15] and a Hamel Museum exists in Yeosu . [16] A 10-meter-tall "Hamel Lighthouse" also stands in Yeosu, South Korea. [17]
Hyangiram (Korean: 향일암; Hanja: 向日庵) is a hermitage and Buddhist temple in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. It was built in 644 during the Baekje period, by the notable Buddhist monk Wonhyo. It is Cultural Asset No. 40 of South Jeolla Province. [1] It is one of four Buddhist hermitages on the peninsula.
The Jeju uprising, known in South Korea as the Jeju April 3 incident [5] (Korean: 제주 4·3 사건), was an uprising on Jeju Island from April 1948 to May 1949. A year prior to its start, residents of Jeju had begun protesting elections scheduled by the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea (UNTCOK) to be held in the United States-occupied half of Korea, which they believed would ...
The 1998 Yeosu submersible incident was a naval skirmish that occurred off of the southern coast of South Korea between 17 and 18 December 1998. On the evening of 17 December, a South Korean observation post sighted a North Korean semi-submersible naval vessel in the vicinity of the city of Yeosu. The semi-submersible was discovered and sunk ...
The Geobukseon Bridge ( Korean : 거북선대교 ), also called the Second Dolsan Bridge ( 제2돌산대교 ), is the main bridge on the Yeosu Road between Udu-ri, Dolsan and Jonghwa-dong, linking the Port of Yeosu with Dolsando across the Namhae sea. [2] The bridge is floating cable-stayed bridge with 464m (35+82+230+82+35m) length and its ...