In one valley are hundreds and hundreds of pillars made by stones of all sizes. These pillars were made by the people of the county in the 1980s when all the coal mines were shut down. At the time, Chongson, which used to have the largest coal industry in Korea, had a great population that had nowhere to go. Hence, people erected the pillars one by one while making a wish with each stone. In fact,' stacking pillars is among one of the things that Koreans that is equivalent of praying in Christianity.
Some tourists also take rocks and stack their own stone pillars.
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