Waeseong in Jukseong-ri, Gijang (; ) is located in
Gijang-gun,
Busan
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,
South Korea
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. It is a stone
fortress built by the
Japanese
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general,
Kuroda Nagamasa who was defending the area against the Korean
Joseon army in about June 1593, during the second year of the
Imjin War
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.
This wall-fortress built on the stronghold in the rear coast of the village of Jukseong-ri, was 11,176 pyeongs (pyeong was a unit of area in the Joseon period) in area, about 300 metres in circumference, 4 metres in height, and three-storied. It has been called the Gijang fortress in
Japan. It was placed at the strategically important point linking together the
Seosaengpo Waeseong fortress in
Ulsan
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, the
Hakseong fortress and the
Busanjinseong Fortress. Originally, it was built with the stones which had once constituted the
Dumopojinseong fortress, so there still remain the footstones of it in a row around the villages in Dumopo.
Today, the surrounding areas of the fortress are used as farming fields, but the stone wall still remains maintaining its original state relatively well.
Japanese-style castles in Korea
Castles in South Korea
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