The patriotic martyrs and patriots who served a major position of the Korean Provisional Government were buried in the Graveyard for Historical Figures of Korean Provisional Government.

This Graveyard was made when 5 historical figures including the second President of Korean Provisional Government Park Eun-sik who awaken to the national sprits by writing ‘The History of Modern Korea’, and ‘a Bloodstained History of Independence Movement’, patriot Shin Kyu-sik, Nho baeng-nin, Kim In-jeoun, and Ahn Tae-guk were moved from the Shanghai Foreigner Cemetery in August, 1993.

The patriots Park Eun-sik, Lee Sang-ryong, Hong Jin and Yang Gi-tak who received the same treatment as head of state were buried in upper side of the Graveyard and Nho Baeng-nin who served Prime Minister, Shin Kyu-sik who served Minister of foreign affairs, and general Ji Cheong-cheon who served commander-in-chief of the Independence Army were buried in the lower part of the Graveyard.

The Graveyard for Casualties for War makes up of 53 graveyards; officers, soldiers, and civil workers in the military who were below colonel were buried here.

In fact, 56 graveyards are made but in the three(5th,8th,9th) of them, mostly police officers were buried so they separated as the Graveyard for Police Officers and only the other 53 graveyards are explained as the Graveyard for Casualties for War.

Most of them who were buried here are the men killed in battle of the suppression of armed communist guerrilla and North Korea partisans, Port Arthur before the Korean War, and the men killed in the battle of the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

192 remains were buried first including army staff sergeant Kang Duk-soo who was the first man buried in the 11th Graveyard on April 2, 1957.

In this Graveyard were buried White Horse trio who were the Korean war heroes, major Kang Jae-gu who saved his men and died on duty during the training for sending troops to the Vietnam war, captain Park Du-won who became a air force pilot from Student Volunteer Soldiers Resident in Japan, master sergeant Lee Won-deng who saved his men during the parachute training, captain Park In-cheol who was buried with his father, major Park Myeong-ryeol, together, a gravestone(second lieutenant Kim Soo-young) which was the only one without name among the gravestones, Baek Gwang-nam, the only Korean reporter, who died in the Vietnam war as a war correspondent, Kim Jae-hyun, a railroad engineer, who volunteered and died in a general William F. Dean who was the commander of the U.S. 24th Corps rescue operation during the Korean war, ten human bombs warriors and so on.

During the battle of White Horse Mountain, Iron Triangle Battlefield, the attack of the 1st company of 30th regiment was stopped by strong residence of communist Chinese army.

At that time Cpl Oh Gyu-bong carried anti-radiation guidance missile on his back and rushed to the enemy’s automatic firearms position to blow it up and platoon commander, second lieutenant Kang Seung-woo, and private first class Ahn Young-kwon gave him cover fire.

Second lieutenant Kang Seung-woo decided to attack on the pillbox with TNT and a mortar. Even as he crawled forward to the machine-gun nest by 7m and threw a bomb he got a shot on his right arm and dropped the bomb. However, private first class Ahn Young-kwon picked up the bomb quickly and threw it and Cpl Oh Gyu-bong also threw a hand grenade at the enemy’s machine-gun nest and destroyed it. This would be the start of recapturing the target by a company resuming the attack.

Their brave military sprits led to victory in the battle of White Horse, which recaptured and was recaptured over 25 times, and performed meritorious deeds. Second lieutenant Kang Seung-woo and private first class Ahn Young-kwon were enshrined with tablets in the Daejeon National Cemetery. Cpl Oh Gyu-bong was buried in the 13th Graveyard(No. 35317) in the Seoul National Cemetery.

In the Graveyard for Foreigners were buried Kang Hye-rim who was an overseas Chinese and Wi Shi Pang. Dr. Frank Schofield was buried in the Graveyard for Patriots.

Kang Hye-rim joined the army of the 15th regiment of the First Division in 1950 and died in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi in 1951 during some operations like reconnoitering enemy territory and prisoner of interrogation.

Wi Shi Pang joined the reconnaissance party in October, 1950 and was credited with reconnoitering enemy territory and prisoner of interrogation. After the truce, she contributed to society such as free medical treatment as an oriental medical doctor and scholarship work. She died in 1989.

The grave of Kang Hye-rim was moved next to the grave of Wi Shi Pang and made the Graveyard for Foreigners to spread their contribution on May 2012.

Dr. Frank Schofield who was buried in the Graveyard for Patriots was an English-Canadian. When the Korean Independence Movement of 1919 was started on March 1, 1919, he joined the independence demonstration in the Pagoda park. He took photos of the spectacle of the demonstration and let all the people know in domestic and foreign. So, he was called one of the 34 national representatives in the March 1 Movement.

When he saw that Japanese police officers took many students and innocent women violently, he visited Japanese chief of police officer and released a lot of his students and citizens. He also supported the Independence Movement by taking photos of the scene of the Jeam-ri Church arson slaughter and formed world public opinion.

He was very active in the Independence Movement, so Japanese police officer tried to plan to assassinate him in 1920. He was also arrested several times.

After liberation, he worked again as a professional of Seoul National University. He got Order of Merit for National Foundation, Independence Medal. When he was dying, he left a will, “Bury me in Korea that I loved.” To take his will and cherish his contributions, he was buried in the Graveyard for Patriots on April 16, 1970.

Seoul National Cemetery was filled to capacity, but The Charnel House for Patriot has been running since March, 2006. The Charnel House for Patriots started to build in end of 2003. It was built in 3 stories. The total floor space is 51,576.4 sqft.

It can hold up to 20,863 cinerary urns and it makes up of Enshrinement Building, Ancestral Ritual Building, and Resting Building. The bereaved families enshrine the deceased at the Enshrinement Building, and can hold a memorial service freely.

It has couple and single type. The couple type is that a person is buried with his or her partner or if he or she wants to be buried together in the future, he or she can be buried in the couple type. The single type is that if a person doesn’t have a partner or doesn’t want to be buried together, then the person can be buried in the single type.

The Memorial Tablet Enshrinement Hall enshrines 104,000 memorial tablets of soldiers whose bodies never found and remains of 7,000 unknown soldiers who found the bodies but couldn’t know the name during the Korean War.

At the center of the Memorial Tablet Enshrinement Hall, the statue of Younghyunseungchun(the ascended souls to heaven) is standing and there is some space for laying flowers. The heaven which honors the rest and death of the souls is embossed on the ceiling.

At the 6 corners of inside of it, the statues of guardian spirit which represent Chun(sky), Ji(earth), Hae(sun), San(mountain), Mok(tree) and Hwa(fire) are standing. The statues mean the protection of the patriots’ souls.