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Guardian gargoyle  
   

Guardian gargoyle

Meant to keep out ill-wishers, fire (a constant worry in an all-wood complex) and demons it guards the sacred stream that runs infront of the entrance to the throne room.
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 ( ... read more
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Korean Flag 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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