Dosa Seowon Lotus pond

Next to Toegye's house. According to my guide, the ethos of Korean architecture is to have buildings within nature, rather than nature within a building (eg a courtyard garden). The academy was therefore built into and surrounded by the lake and the woods

Andong Day 3

September 12th 2012
Today I headed for Dosan Seowon, a famous (in Korea) Confucian Academy established by the renouned Korean scholar, Toegye (at least that was his pen name). Both scholar and academy are artistically featured on the 1,000 won note, which is about as common as a £1 coin or a dollar note. So I was already well acquainted with the place and man Nevertheless, I braved the vagaries of the Andong bus s ... 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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