Yeongweol
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Almost
every place in Korea boasts a special product. Mountains are Yeongweol's.
Danjongeoso
House at Cheongryeongpo, where boy King Danjong lived in exile. Danjong,
born in 1441, was the son of King Munjong, who was the second son of King
Sejong, Korea's most highly venerated king. Munjong died when Danjong
was only 12, so the Premier and Vice-premier ran the government. But then
Sejong's ambitious brother Sejo led a coup d'etat and had himself named
king, in the process killing most of the higher officials in the government
and exiling Danjong to Yeongweol in 1455. About a year after that six
of Sejong's most trusted lieutenants tried to overthrow Sejo and place
Danjong on the throne, but Sejo destroyed them. He decided that Danjong
would have to be eliminated, and had him killed. You can read an interesting
theory about the effect of this incident on Korea's development in the
article "King
Danjong and Korea's Curse."
Cheongryeongpo
is on the Seo River.
Geummong
(Forbidden Dream) Hermitage, in Yeongweol.
Geummong
Hermitage
Heungjeon
Electric Supply. The owner, 86, has been running this store since forever,
and it seems that his dusty inventory hasn't changed since then. (Heung
= stimulant; jeon = electric. Does that mean electric shock?)
Standing
Rock over the Seo River
These
ancestral shrines with beautiful pines are a common sight along rural
highways throughout Korea. This one was spotted on the road from Joseph
Nongweon into the city.
Another
nice tree, just outside Yeongweol.
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