Korean Standing Stones

Quote from "THE RELIGIONS OF EASTERN ASIA" by HORACE GRANT UNDERWOOD, D.D. (1910, MacMillan, New York)

The second class of monuments are the "dolmen,"
found scattered all over the land. Those seen by
the writer have in the main been situated in the
plains, and have generally consisted of three stones,
two enormous slabs supporting a third. They vary
in size, the supporting slabs being from three to five
or six feet wide, more than a foot thick, and rising
five or six feet above the ground.
' In two cases only has there been a fourth stone closing
up one side. Notably in a long plain near the city
of Eul Yul in the Yellow Sea province, there is a
line of these dolmen of great length and apparently
at even distances, the row running north and south.
No bones or relics of any kind have been found,
either under or near any of these dolmen. Despite this,
Professor Hulbert, who has made a study of them,
argues that they are probably tombs, and urges
rightly that time may have easily destroyed all such
vestiges. When, however, we find that from the
oldest times the records speak of burials being made
upon the hills and hillsides, we doubt whether this
was their purpose, leaning rather to the belief that
they are altars, and were in all probability used for
the worship of some of the earth deities of Korea's
nature-worship, especially as we find most of such
altars on the plains, and as the concurrent testimony
of natives is that they are such.
The third and last class of monuments are the
"myriok," gigantic, carved stone figures, sometimes
forty and more feet high, of which there are two
classes, those found singly and those in pairs. The
former are evidently Buddhas, some are even so
named, while the facial expression and posture of
others settle the matter beyond question. Those
in pairs, however, generally seem to be very much
older, always represent a man and a woman, and
are generally supposed to represent the dual principles
of nature, so often mentioned in Chinese cosmology,
and perhaps borrowed from China's Taoism.^
While we have as yet found no inscriptions
* The emblem of this dual principle is a disk equally divided
by two pear-shaped figures of two colors, light and dark. This
on these monuments, and it may be urged that they
are therefore of little or no value, they are, to say
the least, very substantial evidence of the worship of
the people, and even if inscriptions should never be
discovered, they still will be always a very strong
corroboration of the documentary evidence, now or
in the future at our disposal.

My question is who built the third class of standing stones (the male and female paired stones) mention above?

These stones are located on the Korean peninsula.
 
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