Mucheoksan

Mucheoksan rises 703m along the border of Sangdong-myeon and Saengnim-myeon in Gimhae. It isn't a particularly tall mountain, but a small pond near its summit called Cheonji ("Heaven's Pond") ties it into the same founding legends as Gimhae's other Gaya-era sites.

According to legend, when King Suro — founder of the Gaya confederacy — passed away and his subjects tried to dig his tomb at what is now the Royal Tomb of King Suro, water kept welling up from the ground. An old sage (in another version, Sinbo, who had accompanied Queen Heo Hwang-ok from India) appeared and said that digging a pond atop Mucheoksan would cut off the underground flow. They did, the water stopped, and the burial could proceed — and that pond, the story goes, is today's Cheonji.

Moeunam Hermitage on the mountain's slope is also tied to the Gaya royal family, said in different versions to have been built by King Suro out of longing for his mother, or by his son King Geodeung in memory of Queen Heo Hwang-ok.