Jong-myo!

One-day
Culture
Fullmoon2024.07.05
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  • Date of Visit2021.02.15
    Time Spent1 hours
  • AreaSeoul
    ExpensesKRW(₩) 1,000
Closed
Hours
Things to Prepare

None

Transportation

SUBWAY, WALK

About your trip

Jong-myo is basically the temple/tomb for the past kings of Joseon Dynasty. So it's a very quiet and spiritual architecture. It might look simple being just horizontally spread out, but there is actually a hidden design in it. When you step into the main entrance, you would feel slightly overwhelmed. That's because the floor level is slightly off. It is designed to be slightly lower when you enter through the gate that the architecture would look slightly higher than your eye level. I really love how they managed to express such respect to their ancestors through architectural design. It was quite a short trip, but totally worth it.

TIP

Be sure to take a camera that has panorama feature. It is a horizontally long architecture.

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