The national cemetery is a national sanctuary that patriotic martyrs and souls, who sacrifice their noble life for protection and development of the fatherland, go to long sleep. In other words, it is filled with national spirit and will that had overcome a national crisis. It is a cozy and comfortable park of about 430,000 pyeong, which the ridge of spiritual Dongjak cover three sides centering around Gongjak peak of the foot of Kwanak mountain like a three-fold screen, and Han river meanders back and forth in front of it. About 162,000 patriotic martyrs and souls have gone to long sleep in the national cemetery, which they are patriots who had struggled to regain a country's independence including anti-Japanese army of the end of the Joseon Dynasty, men of merit who had devoted one's life to country's development and nation's prosperity, and soldiers, police officers and reserve forces who had fought for saving the country from war crisis by enemies' aggression and then had gloriously died. The objects of burial are Mr. Woonam, who had been a state minister in the provisional government of ROK, was awarded the order of independence, and was buried in the national cemetery on July 28, 2005.