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Munheonseowon Confucian Academy

문헌서원

A Confucian academy honouring two late-Goryeo scholars, its lecture halls ringed by pines, lawn and crape myrtle.

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The pond in front of Munheonseowon with a pavilion standing on stone piers above the water, a low yellow-green hedge across the foreground, cherry trees in blossom on the lawn beyond, a red-painted gate and tiled halls to the left and a pine hill behind

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Korean name
문헌서원
Address
66 Seowon-ro 172beon-gil, Gisan-myeon, Seocheon-gun, Chungcheongnam-do

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The west stone pagoda at the Mireuksa site at sunset: six tiers of stone roofs narrowing over a broad platform, a dark passage opening at the centre of the first storey, and the sun low on the right across the dry ground of the temple site

Mireuksa Temple Site

The site of a temple founded under King Mu of Baekje. It has a plan found nowhere else: stone pagodas east and west with a wooden one between them, each with its own main hall behind it. The western stone pagoda is the oldest surviving stone pagoda in Korea.

Five Baekje lotus-pattern roof-end tiles displayed at Buyeo National Museum: round grey clay tile ends, each carved with raised lotus petals, set apart on a pale display panel

Buyeo National Museum

The national museum for the finds of Sabi-period Baekje, which gives the gilt-bronze incense burner a hall of its own.

The open ground of the Jeongnimsa site with the five-storey stone pagoda standing at the right, its wide thin stone roofs stepping outward at each storey, a low iron rail around its base, the outlines of building platforms showing low in the earth, and the village visible beyond the wall behind

Jeongnimsa Temple Site

The site of the principal temple of Sabi-period Baekje. The temple is gone; a five-storey stone pagoda from Baekje and a seated stone Buddha from Goryeo remain, and the north-south axis running from the middle gate past the pagoda and hall to the lecture hall is still legible across the open ground.

Nakhwaam inside Busosanseong from above at an angle: the hexagonal Baekhwajeong pavilion on the wooded clifftop, grey rock dropping away beneath it toward the Baengma River, and a timber viewing deck fixed to the cliff face

Busosanseong Fortress

A mountain fortress wrapping Busosan on the south bank of the Baengma River. It guarded the palace after the court moved to Sabi and defended the capital until Baekje fell. Nakhwaam cliff and Goransa temple stand inside it.

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