These two menhirs are known to megalithic monuments from the prehistoric age, are located in inuidong, kumi, near taegu, Korea. Having changed the environment by the urban development, primitive aspects of these are disappeared, and also even be seen as the contemporary artworks in the street(still under construction). Big one measures about 3.8m high, 1.5m x 1.3m square at bottom of it, small one measures 2.4m high, 2.5m around at bottom of it.

The big one on the left side with "Kwaehyeam" engraved on it is also called "Shingori bawi", both names meaning "the rock where straw sandals were placed." It stood by the roadside in Changpyong-dong but was brought here in 1987 because of the road expansion at the old site. This rock has "Indong Sugusok" engraved on the northern face and "Kwaehyeam" on the southern face together with the regend concerning Indong Magistrate Yi Tung-rim who earned the reserved respect of the villagers by his kindness and model conduct as a public servant. When he was leaving the village after his tour here, he learned that one of his slave woman had recieved a pair of straw sandals from a local official as a farewell gift. He ordered her to leave them on this rock saying that they were goverment property. The name of the rock was inspired by that by that episode. The regend was inscribed during the reign of Sonjo(r.1567~1608). This stone is valuable for the study of local history.

The small rock on the right side that carries the inscription, "Monument of the republic of Korea," also stood near the Kwaehyeam rock at the forked road near Chinpyonggyo Bridge. It is sometimes called Chulpoam, or "thief-catching stone", because it was placed there about the time a local government office was set up in Indong in the geomantic belief ('Pungsu' in korean, 'Feng-shui' in chinese) that it would expedite the apprehension of thieves. Some Japanese carved the words "Daisho Monument" on the stone during the Japanese rule(1910~45) and Koreans replaced it with "Monument of the republic of Korea" after the country's liberation in 1945.(1)
(photos taken in Nov. 1997, written in Nov. 1997)

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(1)quote from Information board