Haedongsa Temple

An Jung-geun, who assassinated Itō Hirobumi at Harbin Station in Manchuria, is an independence activist respected by the entire nation, but he had no descendants and for a long time could not receive ancestral rites. In 1955, at the initiative of the Confucian scholars of Jangheung and the Juksan An clan, a shrine was built within the current site of Mansusa. Then-President Syngman Rhee expressed his respect by bestowing a handwritten plaque reading 'Haedong Myeongwol' (Bright Moon of the Eastern Sea), meaning to brightly illuminate the Republic of Korea, and thus it received the name Haedongsa. Inside Haedongsa are a portrait photograph and memorial tablet of An Jung-geun, as well as a clock stopped at 9:30, the time he shot Itō Hirobumi. The entrance to Haedongsa is round and low, said to embody the meaning that those who enter should always bow their heads with a humble heart.

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