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Yongsan Family Park: A Picnic, Chosen Again Without the Lunch — Maya Walks Over from Exit 2 of Ichon Station and Re-picks a Picnic Scene She Found on Screen, This Time to Fit the Park’s Own Rules, on a Weekday Afternoon

SEOUL · YONGSAN FAMILY PARK

Yongsan Family Park: A Picnic, Chosen Again Without the Lunch

The third part of “Yongsan.” Yongsan Family Park opened on 5 November 1992 on land once taken up by a golf course. On Maya’s list of scenes was a picnic: a mat spread on a wide lawn and a packed lunch opened on it. But the general visitor notes on Seoul’s parks website say that, to protect wildlife, bringing in food is prohibited. So this time Maya takes the lunch out of the scene and chooses it again.

The Room of Quiet Contemplation: Walking All the Way Round Two Pensive Bodhisattvas — Rina Heads Straight from Ichon Station to the 2nd Floor of the National Museum of Korea, Takes the Dark Entrance Passage Slowly, and Sorts Two Statues — One 6th-Century, One 7th-Century — into Left and Right on a Saturday Evening

SEOUL · ROOM OF QUIET CONTEMPLATION

The Room of Quiet Contemplation: Walking All the Way Round Two Pensive Bodhisattvas

Part two of “Yongsan.” The Room of Quiet Contemplation, on the 2nd floor of the National Museum of Korea’s Permanent Exhibition Hall, opened on 12 November 2021: a 439 m² gallery that shows two national-treasure pensive bodhisattva statues side by side. Before then, the museum says, the pair had been shown together in a room of their own only three times. On her first visit Rina reached this room almost last, after every other floor. This time she comes for this one room.

National Museum of Korea: The Open Yard and the Pond to Show a Friend Before Any Ticket — Lulu Follows the Museum Walkway from Ichon Station to the West Gate, Then Notes, in the Order She Would Show a Friend, the Empty Yard at the Heart of a Building of More Than 140,000 Square Metres and the Pond That Reflects It — On a Wednesday Afternoon

SEOUL · NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA

National Museum of Korea: The Open Yard and the Pond to Show a Friend Before Any Ticket

The first part of “Yongsan.” The National Museum of Korea opened in its new building in Yongsan on 28 October 2005. Its website gives a total floor area of 146,765.88 square metres, designed by Junglim Architecture. The permanent galleries are free, and on Wednesdays and Saturdays the museum stays open until 9 p.m. Lulu, choosing places to show a friend arriving from abroad next month, looks at the open yard in the middle of the building and the pond in front of it before any gallery.