Tteunbongsaem Spring Eco Tourist Site
10-18, Mulppuraengi-gil, Jangsu-eup, Jangsu-gun
Tteunbongsaem Spring Eco Park 063-353-7002
09:00~18:00
Open year-round
Passing through Gangtaedeung, the streams rising from 'Tteunbongsaem Spring', the source of Geumgang (Riv), has created Gangtaedeunggol Valley, containing the first streamlet of Geumgang (Riv). The original Subuncheon flows 1.5km from Gangtaedeunggol Valley and lead to Subuncheon, joining with neighboring streamlets, and flowing about 395km, or 1000 Li through seventeen cities and guns.
The origin of Tteunbongsaem Spring has the following story;
『The first king, Yi Seong-gye, who established Joseon, built an altar on the hillside of Sinmusan Mountain to
start
praying for 100 days in order to receive a revelation from the mountain gods of the national Yeongsan so that he
could
gain a country. On the dawn of the hundredth day, a rainbow rose from the valley a short distance from the
altar, and a
colorful phoenix rode the rainbow and left to the sky. Hearing the heavenly revelation from the air where the
phoenix
was leaving, he heard “Open a new country,” Yi Seong-gye built the Sangiam Hermitage beside the altar and made
sacrificial food with the spring water to serve a ritual for the worship of the heavenly gods. The phoenix
emerged from
the spring and the name of this place was became Tteunbongsaem Spring.』