Virtual tour 1 - Changdeokgung Palace Secret Garden

Let's go to South Korea on a virtual tour and visit the Changdeokgung Palace. 


                 
Thank you Expedia

Do you want to see more, e.g. walk trough Changdeokgung Palace?

                 
 It's a 40 minutes video.   https://youtu.be/yMN0RDaKnRk
The walking tour is between 14:26 - 34:00.

I was wondering why there are Chinese writings all around the palace. Here is the answer I found.

Gyeongbokgung (Korean: 경복궁; Hanja: 景福宮), also known as Gyeongbokgung Palace or Gyeongbok Palace, was the main royal palace of the Joseon dynasty. Built in 1395, it is located in northern Seoul, South Korea. (The palace was destroyed and rebuilt several times since 1395.)


Hanja (Korean: 한자; Hanja: 漢字, Korean pronunciation: [ha(ː)nt͈ɕa]) is the Korean name for an old writing system consisting mainly of Traditional Chinese characters (Chinese: 漢字; pinyin: hànzì)[1] (also known as 조선한자(朝鮮漢字) in China) that was incorporated and used since the Gojoseon period (400 BCE). More specifically, it refers to the Traditional Chinese characters incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation.


Source: Wikipedia

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