National Museum of Korea
Vast national museum of royal treasures, ancient pottery and Buddhist art in a riverside park setting.
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This guide to the National Museum of Korea in Seoul opens on Liberation Day, 1995, when the dome came off a giant stone building in the centre of the city, the one the museum had lived in until that year. It follows the history of that site beside Gyeongbokgung palace, and of a ten-storey marble pagoda carved in the fourteenth century whose path ran alongside it. Best heard on the first floor of the museum, standing at the pagoda.
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