SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Dondeokjeon, a historic Western-style building in Seoul’s Deoksu Palace used as a royal guesthouse during the Korean Empire (1897-1910), will open to the public Tuesday after being reconstructed in its original shape, the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) said. The reconstruction was part of the agency’s broader plan to restore [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The spectacular royal guard mounting ceremony at Deoksu Palace, one of the major traditional tourist attractions in Seoul, resumed Tuesday after nearly nine months of suspension due to the new coronavirus pandemic, the city government of Seoul said. The changing of the guard ceremony is an elaborate tourist event [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A special exhibition will reproduce the banquets the Korean Empire treated to dignitaries from home and abroad during the empire’s short-lived reign at the turn of the century. The exhibition, “Imperial Banquet of the Daehan Empire,” is set to open Saturday at the Daehan Empire History Museum at Deoksu [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — One late summer night, well-known Mozart music fills the neoclassical manor of Seokjojeon at Deoksu Palace, one of the five royal palaces in central Seoul. At the majestic, elegant entrance hall with ivory colored walls and pillars decorated with gilted plum flower patterns, arched windows and rococo-style fireplaces, three [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — An outdoor exhibition at the royal palace of Deoksu in central Seoul will go back in time to a century ago to explore city development visions by architects from that time period, a national museum said Tuesday. The exhibition, “Unearthing Future,” will kick off on Thursday on the premises [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7. (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul metropolitan government opened the entire walkway encircling a royal palace in the South Korean capital to the public Friday almost 60 years after it was blocked off by the British Embassy. Visitors have been unable to complete a circuit of the walkway along the stone wall around Deoksu Palace, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — About 100 years after the death of King Gojong, the penultimate ruler of Korea’s last kingdom of Joseon, his royal residence, Deoksu Palace, provides a rare scenic retreat for modern Koreans at the very bustling heart of the capital Seoul. A 1.1-kilometer stone-paved path along the stone wall that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Onlookers will get a glimpse of the past as the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation announced that on weekends from September 16 to October 22, Deoksu Palace will host the “Empire of Korea Welcoming Ceremony for Foreign Diplomats”. The event, a reenactment of traditional Joseon-era diplomatic procedures, will take place [...]