From Deoksugung to the Jeongdong Observatory
An afternoon route from Deoksugung’s Junghwajeon along the stone wall road and Jeongdong-gil to the Jeongdong Observatory, where you look down on the road you walked.
KOREA ON CUE · ISSUE 04 · JEONGDONG
Jeongdong, One Wall and a Hundred Years
A wall to walk along, a museum at its end, and a red-brick street beyond. Elena takes Jeongdong one place at a time — Deoksugung Stone Wall Road, the Seosomun Main Branch of the Seoul Museum of Art, Jeongdong-gil — counting the years each building carries.
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01Walking Along Deoksugung’s Stone WallElena has seen this wall path in more dramas than she can count.
02Seoul Museum of Art, Before You EnterAt the corner where the stone wall road ends, Elena does not stop; she carries on up the slope.
03A Walk Along Jeongdong-gil’s Red-Brick StreetsJeongdong-gil begins where the stone wall road ends.- 04Jeongdong Observatory Above DeoksugungThree pieces, three roads: the stone wall, the museum front, Jeongdong-gil.
05Junghwajeon Hall Inside DeoksugungShe walked the stone wall road, and she looked down on it from above.
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