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Seoul’s City Park of Royal Tombs Finds Autumn Colors

SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Seonjeongneung is located in Gangnam’s Samseong-Dong, one of the city’s busiest business districts. It is a 220,000-square-meter city park featuring 500-year-old burial grounds of two kings and a queen from the Joseon Dynasty. At the westernmost end of the park is the tomb of the King Seonjong (1457 – [...]

Green Areas Proven to Lower City Temperatures

SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Seonjeongneung, one of the green spaces in Seoul, has turned out to lower the temperature of the region by two degrees. The results were derived from a National Institute of Meteorological Sciences study of temperatures at Seonjeongneung and the area nearby over the past two years. Seonjeongneung is a [...]