(PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) The museum clarified that the widely recognized 12-dish royal table became prominent during the late Joseon period under King Gojong and King Sunjong. Before then ...

Cleaning King Sejong's statue A worker sprays water on the statue of King Sejong at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on April 15, 2025, as part of a springtime cleanup detail. Sejong, the fourth ...

He overthrew the Goryeo dynasty and founded a new dynasty, Joseon. As the first King Taejo of Joseon, he chose Hanyang (present-day Seoul)—judged to be a propitious spot according to the principles of ...

Place - Hongneung (tombs of King Gojong and Queen Myeongseong, the background is the front of the sanctuary where the ancestral rites of the latter take place) Pieta: the spirit of Korea, born with ...