Fortress
Garimseong Fortress
🇰🇷 South Korea
Karimsŏng (Korean: 가림성; Hanja: 加林城; RR: Garimseong) was a Baekje-era Korean mountain fortress built on the mountain Seongheungsan (성흥산) in what is now Buyeo County, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. It was first completed in 501 (Korean calendar). It is attested to in the Samguk sagi. It was used to protect two successive capitals of Baekje. On January 21, 1963, it was designated Historic Site of South Korea No. 4.
Text adapted from “Karimsŏng” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Garimseong Fortress ranks #4,632 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #31 of the 56 mapped in South Korea. See how South Korea compares in the castle statistics.
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