Preface
You can be the best palace tour guide for your family, friends, and tourists with this!
This book is the culmination of five years of research, field study, and personal experience on the subject of Changdeokgung Palace. While working as a tour guide at the royal palace, I gave many tours for locals and global tourists and met lots of people who were interested in Korean royal palac
Preface
You feel as if you were in the night tour at Changdeokgung Palace
with your family, friends, tourists in moonlit night with this book !
This book is the culmination of six years of my research, field study, and personal experience on the subject ofthe nighttime tour named Moonlight Tour of Changdeokgung Palace. While working as a tour guide at the royal palace, I gave many tou
of events, from the starting till the end. For example, when drawing a portrait of a King, theKing’s commands, the artists used, payment ofthe artists, and amount of paint used and so on, were recorded.
These records acted as the guidelines for thekings, bureaucrats, and practically all the people in the palace and perhaps are the main reason how Joseon was able to last for over 500 years.
theyears, partly reinforced or newly built. Among them, castle of Mt. Bukak has been recently restored and open to the public. Hanyang castle is best walking destination where you can enjoy old look and all the beautiful natural scenery.
○2Introduction of Seoul Castle
Seoul castle is a castle town ofthe Joseon Dynasty surrounding Seoul. Taejo transfer ofthe capital in Hanyang. Afterw
the positions while the speed oftheir career to the top positions was greatly influenced by their backgrounds and especially the political status oftheir fathers’ and grandfathers’.
The system contributed in maintaining Chosun Dynastry for 500 years because the system enabled government officials to stay close to the royal household and motivated them to stay loyal to theking and the dy