Lee sunshin in’Gwanghwamun square’ in Seoul

Lee sunshin

Lee sunshin

'Gwanghwamun square' in Seoul in Korea 2009

They built the statue of Lee Sunshin the famous captin who fought with 13 ships and gained victory over 133 Japanese ships.

More about Lee sunshin;
Chosun had experienced a big war named ‘Imjinwaeran’ which was attacked by Japan in 1592. At that time of Imjinwaeran, Chosun was very weak.There were many generals, but Admiral Lee Sunshin was the most outstanding in sea fights.

Admiral Lee Sunshin stopped the routes of Japanesse navy. And by stopping the maritime supply routes, he defeated the Japanese navy.
This made Admiral Lee Sunshin famous, and Japanese navy be scared of his name.

Admiral Lee Sunshin had another big achievement. It is the Turtle Ships which achived big victories in sea fights. In fact, the Turtle Ships had far better abilities and powers compared to other ships. So they could show big activities in the sea fights in which Admiral Lee Sunshin had attended. Admiral Lee Sunshin had made a lot of ships sink using these ships, and it made a big role to raise up the morale of Chosun.

In addition, Admiral Lee Sunshin developed various strategies such as Hack-ickjin-Bird wing strategy- using the Turtle Ships and normal ships. Hack means crane in Korean. The Korean ships surrounded Japanese ships in the shape of the open wings of crane. When Japaese detected this, Koreans invented double-Hak-ik-jin mehtod which looks like ‘W’, which fooled the Japaese again.
Were’nt they so clever?

He fought with Turtle ship and used Hack-ickjin-Bird method gained victory with only 13ships against over 133 Japanese ships.

He was also the one who were conferred with the title of ‘Sung-woong’ which means both saint and hero

I feel proud that he performed such wonderful jobs to protect our country:)

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