If you go about 8 km to the southwest from Chuncheon city, Mt. Samaksan with the height of 654 m appears right next to Uiam Dam, and in this Mt. Samaksan, Heungguksa temple is located.
Huengguksa temple is a place where Gungye of Post-Goguryeo in the later three kingdoms¡¯ period fought with Wanggeon in 894, and it is handed down that the reconstruction of the nation was desired by baking tiles in a place called ¡°Oe(Wa)degi¡±, constructing a palace with them, and building a temple called Heungguksa.
The place where the palace was located in the center of the mountain fortress at that time is called the ¡°palace lot¡± even today, and the place where the tiles were baked is called ¡°Oe(Wa)degi¡±, the place where horses were tied up is called ¡°Malgol(Horse gol)¡±, the place where the fight with daggers occurred is called ¡°Kalbong(Dagger peak)¡±, and the place where soldiers aired their clothes is called ¡°Otbawi(Clothes rock)¡±. The temple is called Heungguksa as it was called in the old time, and a popular name is the great temple. Afterwards, this temple, which was burnt with fires due to disturbances of war several times, was remodeled again in the 2nd year of Gwangmu, but since it was ruined and narrow, 17 pyeong of Daeungjeon(a hall of the great hero) was reconstructed in 1986.