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Open Air Museum «A Palace of Shining Happiness»

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South Korea is a country and museum at the same time. Here you can walk along the streets and enjoy unusual constructions, buildings and green parks. You can enjoy modern constructions and historical places located close to each other. South Korea has enormous an cultural and historical heritage. Unfortunately, not all these historical monuments could survived till today, and some of them were reconstructed or restored recently. But, many historical places were rearranged to the museums, so people can visit it and learn about Korea more. In this post I will introduce to you one of the oldest historical heritage —  Gyeongbokgung Palace (경복궁) . Many people call this palace ‘ Gyeongbokgung’, however, it is not so correct lingustically. The ending ‘gung’ (궁) means ‘palace’ from Korean languge. Therefore, the right interpretation of Gyeongbokgung is Gyeongbok Palace. The name of the palace has a several meanings. A palace of shining happiness, A palace of sun light and happine...

[Seoul Tour] Palace of Serene Harmony

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A warm ‘HI’ from Seoul. Today I would like to offer you to forget all daily business and to have a walk around one of 5 Royal Palaces in Seoul.  Maybe many of you are thinking that I am talking about Gyeongbokgung palace, because it is the most popular palace in Seoul and 9 of 10 tourists visit that palace.  But, NO, we will visit another palace —  Palace of Serene Harmony  —  Gyeonghuigung .  Gyeonghuigung is one of the smallest palaces in Seoul, but it is the least beautiful one.  If be honest I visited that palace after 10 years of life in Korea. I have been in Gyeongbokgung Palace or Deoksugung Palace million of times. Also, I have been to Changdeokgung palace or Changgyeonggung palace many times. But I don’t why but Gyeonghuigung palace… I just passed by it many times.  By the way, there are 5 Royal Grand Palaces in Seoul : Gyeongbokgung Palace, Deoksugung Palace, Changdeokgung palace, Changgyeonggung palace and Gyeonghuigung palace. All palac...