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Seolmundae & her 500 sons

On the west south side slope of mountain Halla, there is a picturesque place called "Youngsil", where steep stiffs and rugged rocks rise high up in the sky. These rocks are called five hundred generals or five hundred arahans.

Legend has it that Grandma Seolmundae lived with her five hundred sons long ago. In a ear of severe drought they were starved, and the five hundred sons went out to find some food. Waiting for her five hundred sons return home Grandma Seolundae was cooking soup but slipped into the boiling pot and drowned.

 

Not knowing of their mother's death, the famished sons devoured the soup which they found more delicious than ever. The youngest son returned home last and founda none in the soup which he realized was his mother's. He angrily denounced his brothers who ate the soup their mother drowned in and ran out crying for his mother.

He ran until he reached as far as Chagwi island of Kosanri, Hankyingmyun and there he turned into a rock. His remaining bothers watched this and stood together lamenting mother's death every night and day until they all turned into rocks. They became the five hundred generals.