Seoul Day 3
September 7th 2012 Insadong (phonetic, emphasise the "ng" in "dong" with a hard "d" sound) - the palace district.
Seoul has a silly number of palaces, built by successive kings mostly in the Joseon dynasty which started in the late 1300s and ended 67 kings later when Korea was annexed by Japan in 1910, so a visit to Insadong was rather a foregone conclusion.
Today I saw the principal residence, Gyeongbokgung (
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