[KS] Independence Gate (Tongnipmun) during Japanese Colonial Rule?

Peter Schroepfer schroepfer at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 00:01:11 EST 2004


> next
> to it stands a smaller arch which clearly says Yônginmun, intended to
> welcome visiting Chinese emissaries. So even if that one was
> "destroyed in February 1895" (and I don't know that to be inaccurate)
> then obviously part of it still stands or was rebuilt, which would
> surprise me. Yônginmun is tiny, so I can imagine there might have been
> more to it at one point.

Oops make that Yôngûnmun, not Yônginmun.




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