Sungnyemun, also known as Namdaemun or South Gate, a 600-year-old landmark of Seoul, will reopen later this week, five years after it was severely damaged by an arson attack, the Cultural Heritage ...
Some of the colorful paint on the newly restored Sungnyemun Gate in central Seoul has come off just five months after the gate’s opening to the public, allegedly due to poor execution of the ...
Seoul's 600-year-old Sungnyemun Gate survived both the Korean War and Japanese occupation, but it could not endure the anger of a 69-year-old man and his simmering grudge against the South Korean ...
Police raided the offices and residence of a veteran carpenter suspected of supplying wood imported from Russia for the Sungnyemun Gate restoration project, officials said Friday. Speculations have ...
The Royal Palaces and Tombs Center of the Cultural Heritage Administration from June 22 opens the back of Sungnyemun Gate in Seoul's Jung-gu District for the first time since 2008, when the national ...