A ceremony marking the return of a 300-year-old stone monument to its original resting place in North Korea will be held on Tuesday.

Around one-hundred people, including officials from the Cultural Heritage Administration, are to take part in the ceremony that will be held before the grave of General Chung Moon-boo in Gyeonggi Province, ahead of the Bukgwan Daecheopbi's return to the North on Wednesday.

The ceremony will include traditional folk music and dance performances followed by services honoring the memory of General Chung.

The Joseon Dynasty stone monument will be transferred to the North via land route on Wednesday morning, with a ceremony marking the handover set to take place in the North’s border city of Gaesong.

Last October, the Bukgwan Daecheopbi was returned from Japan and had since been on display at the Independence Hall.

The monument was built in 1707 to mark a volunteer army's victory over Japanese invaders in the late 16th century.

Japanese soldiers during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 stole the monument, which then rested in the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo before being returned by Tokyo.