Case file · Folklore / legend
Nakhwaam, the Rock of Falling Flowers
Tradition says Baekje's palace women threw themselves from this cliff above the Baengma River as Sabi fell, falling like petals.
660 CE · 36.29, 126.91 · status: legend
The account
The number 'three thousand' in later poems is a figure of speech. Goransa temple below the rock keeps the story alive.
The sceptical view
No contemporary source describes the mass suicide; the legend grew in later centuries.