Hansan Island

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Hansan Island, known to Koreans as Hansando, is located across a relatively narrow strait from Choongmoo City, which was once known as Tongyeong.

Originally the site of Yi Sun-Sin's first naval base, it was strategically designed to conduct surveillance and reconnaissance of the nearby Kyunneryang strait, which was an inland route leading directly to the Japanese naval base located in Busan.

After King Seonjo's jealousy and paranoia lead to Yi Soon-Shin's arrest, imprisonment and subsequent torture and interrogation by the court's Confucian faction, Won-Kyun was reassigned to lead the Korean navy.

However, Won-Kyun, in a decision of monumental stupidity, decided to brazenly attack the Busan base, even with the tides itself against him. Onland shelling forced him to retreat, and the Japanese navy pursued him relentlessly, sinking all but thirteen war-galleons in the process. Won-Kyun himself would be killed during this disastrous retreat, and Hansan Island, and its evacuated naval base, was laid open to vengeful Japanese forces, who would eventually burn it down.