Gimje

Kimje lies in a broad agricultural plain in southwestern Korea. Its great irrigation embankment, Pyŏkkolje, was an old work long before the Joseon dynasty. In 1415 King T'aejong ordered it repaired and enlarged after officials examined the site and its four sluices. The project promised new fields below the dam, but the embankment soon failed again; by 1418 officials reported that its banks had collapsed.