Sukjeongmun Gate

This guide to Sukjeongmun Gate above Seoul explains a fourteenth-century mountain gate built to stay closed. It follows the geomancers who assigned each gate of the 1396 fortress wall an element, and how officials would swing this one open or shut it tight to try to coax rain during a drought, or choke off a flood. You'll also hear how a 1968 commando raid down this ridge left the gate fenced off from the public for decades afterward.