Geumseongsan Mountain (Hapcheon)

This description was machine-translated from the Korea Tourism Organization's Korean original.

Geumseongsan Mountain, located in Daebyeong-myeon, Hapcheon-gun, is a mountain due east of the Daebyeong-myeon township seat, and its parent mountain is Hwangmaesan Mountain. Geumseong means “iron fortress,” and because a beacon mound, one means of communication since the old Goryeo period, stands on the summit, it is also known as Bonghwasan Mountain. Some records also call Heogulsan Mountain to the southeast, Geumseongsan Mountain in the middle, and Akgyeonsan Mountain to the north together the Three Mountains (Samsan). The beacon mound on the summit of Geumseongsan Mountain was made by stacking stones around natural bedrock and building a fire pit and structures. Nearby is a site where buildings once stood, and within that site a record related to the construction of the beacon mound is carved into the natural bedrock. According to the record, this beacon mound was built in the 2nd year of King Jeongjo of Joseon (1778).