Day 40: Samnyeonsanseong Fortress

February 13 in South Korea ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C

A 20 mins ride from Songnisan, we arrives at Boeun to visit a small fortress called Samnyeonsanseong Fortress. It’s a 1.5km walk from the Boeun Bus Terminal. It’s a small fortress, so small that the manager came out to greet us and tried to explain to us the area.

Samnyeonsanseong Fortress was constructed in 470 by the Silla kingdom
(57 BCE-935 CE) and underwent a major repair in 486. It is considered to be one of Korea's representative ancient stone fortresses.

The name Samnyeonsanseong means "Mountain Fortress of Three Years, which,
according to the History of the Three Kinadoms (Sampuk sagi), was named
because its construction took three years to complete.Read more