Mount Baegasan, a strategically important location connecting Mount Jirisan and Mount Mudeungsan and marked by its rugged terrain, served during the Korean War as the site of the South Jeolla provincial headquarters of the Workers' Party of Korea and the South Jeolla partisan command headquarters. After the Incheon Landing turned the tide of the war and forced the South Jeolla provincial party into a corner, its remaining forces retreated to this mountain, and fierce fighting followed in the surrounding area. Partisan activity in the Hwasun region reached its most intense point in 1951, when Chinese forces were exerting heavy pressure along the front lines, but as the war situation stalemated and outside supply lines were cut off, these forces increasingly found themselves in dire circumstances.
According to an investigation by South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, civilian casualties attributed to partisan forces between August 1950 and April 1952 reached approximately 100 reported victims. The 11th Division, established specifically to conduct counter-partisan operations in rear areas, launched full-scale suppression operations from October 1950 and led the Hwasun-region campaign through its final stage of operations at the end of March the following year. Civilian harm during this period — encompassing both harm attributed to partisan forces and harm occurring in the course of counter-partisan operations — left deep scars on the local community, and investigation into the full and precise scope of this harm continues even today. Today, near the summit of Mount Baegasan stands a structure called the "Sky Bridge" — a tourist attraction that also serves, at the same time, as a place that calls to mind the wartime memory this mountain still carries.