Tomb of King Sejong

This is a real peaceful park, and tomb of the famous Korean king right outside of Yeoju. I had a nice afternoon wandering around his burial ground and the museum dedicated to everything Sejong. Apparently he was not only a king, inventor of the Hangeul language, but pretty smart in a bunch of other areas (celestial stuff, sun dials, calendars, time keepers).

Blog-abration #4: Yeoju, South Korea: A Photo Tour of Our Korean Hometown

October 4th 2009
Before coming to Korea, we couldn’t find any information on the designated town we were to call home for the next year. Literally, the only two solid bits of information, if you can call them that, in which we knew for sure was that Yeoju is the home for some kind of world ceramic festival and there is a premium outlet shopping mall in town. You could say we were going in pretty blind, but in th ... read more

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Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a... ... read more

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