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Gyeongcheonsa Ten-Story Pagoda is the first marvel pagoda in Korea. Location: Gyeongcheonsa Ten-Story Pagoda originally stood in Gyeongcheon Temple near Gaeseong, in today’s Gaepung-gun area, just outside North Korea’s Gaeseong city, close to the current inter-Korean border region in the mid-Korean Peninsula. Who made it:  On the first story of the pagoda, there is an inscription that tells us exactly who sponsored and why they built it. It was built by two powerful court officials named Kang Yung and Go Yong-bo .   why they made it:  To understand this pagoda, we need to look at Goryeo’s dangerous politics in the 14th century. At that time, Goryeo was heavily controlled by the Mongol Yuan dynasty. The two powerful officials who built it gained wealth by cooperating closely with the Mongols. They dedicated this magnificent pagoda to Empress Ki, a Goryeo woman who had been taken to the Mongol Yuan dynasty as a tribute girl but later rose to become empress. So this wa...

This is one of the most thrilling historical mysteries between Korea and Japan, and it perfectly highlights how advanced the ancient Silla Kingdom was. If you place Korea's National Treasure No. 83 (made of bronze) and Japan's Miroku Bosatsu at Koryu-ji Temple (made of wood) side by side, it is almost impossible to tell them apart just by looking at their silhouettes. They share the same gentle smile, the exact same three-mountain crown, the bare upper body, and the beautifully draped clothing folds over the pedestal. The Secret Revealed by a Broken Finger For a long time, Japanese scholars believed the Koryu-ji wooden statue was a masterpiece created by their own ancient artisans. But in 1960, a shocking incident occurred. A Japanese university student, completely mesmerized by the statue's beautiful smile, climbed over the fence and hugged it. In the process, he accidentally broke off the statue's right ring finger! While this was a terrible accident, it led to a ma...

  🏛️ National Museum of Korea Ranks 3rd Worldwide with 6.5 Million Visitors in 2025 Seoul now stands beside Paris and Vatican City on the global museum map. The National Museum of Korea welcomed more than 6.5 million visitors in 2025. That result placed it third in a major worldwide art-museum attendance survey. The number is impressive, but the reason behind the growth tells an even bigger story about Korean culture. 🏛️ A Record-Breaking Rise The National Museum of Korea recorded 6,507,483 visitors in 2025 , rising from approximately 3.8 million in 2024. This was an increase of more than 70 percent in a single year and one of the largest attendance gains reported by The Art Newspaper . In the publication’s 2025 visitor survey, the museum ranked behind only the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Vatican Museums. The Louvre attracted slightly more than 9 million visitors, while the Vatican Museums received about 6.9 million. The National Museum of Korea followed with 6.5 million, p...

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The History of Gukbap When you are cold, tired, hungry, and perhaps slightly damaged by Korean soju, what should you eat? The answer is usually gukbap . The word is very simple. Guk means soup, and bap means cooked rice. So gukbap literally means “soup and rice.” Traditionally, however, it usually referred to rice placed inside hot soup rather than soup and rice served as completely separate dishes. In historical documents, a similar dish was often called tangban , written with the Chinese characters 湯飯 : tang means hot soup, and ban means cooked rice or a meal. ( 한국민족문화대백과사전 ) But gukbap is much more than rice floating in soup. It tells us how Korean markets developed, how ordinary people traveled, how cities grew, and how war and poverty created new regional foods. In other words, this bowl is almost a Korean history textbook—only much warmer and more delicious. 1. Did gukbap begin in ancient Korea? The exact person, place, and date of gukbap’s invention are not known . Koreans ...