We visited Changdeokgung, which is an old palace of the Korean king. This was, I think, the most popular tourist's attraction in Seoul. Several guides were always ready at the tourist's information center. Korean, Japanese, English and Chinese speaking guides started into the palace every ten minutes with about 30 people. Our tour group joined the Japanese group, leaving our original guide at the entrance, and took a walk in the palace for about one hour having the explanation from the new guide. I took lots of pictures and I'm showing you some of them with some explanations.
The first picture is of the main building of the palace. Small posts that arrange in the yard say the rank of the nobles on their surfaces. When in some official events, the nobles seemed to have lined up at their ranks. I've watched the scene that had been shot here in the TV drama, "Dae Jang Geum (대장금 大長今)" and I was eager to visit. The story was fiction, but it made me motivated to learn Korean. The old building in the second picture was also used in the drama. Our guide was very smart and friendly. I took a snapshot of her and I'll record her in my blog. This place (3rd-5th picture) was very famous because it was used in the scene in which the heroine had a chat and took a walk with the king.
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