13 Cultural Heritage Sites in Korea
9. Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong
📌 Near Andong and Gyeongju, South Korea
✅ Established : 2010
✅ Established in the 14th and 15th centuries, Hahoe and Yangdong are excellent representations of the historic clan villages of Korea.
✅ A clan village refers to a village where a single clan or a small number of clans comprise the great majority of the total population or played a leading role in making decisions on important village affairs. Hahoe and Yangdong are Korea’s representative clan villages and yangban (nobility) villages.
10. Namhansanseong Fortress
📌 Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
✅ Established : 2014
✅ Namhansanseong Fortress is a very popular hiking and driving destination among locals and tourists.
✅ An excellent destination for those who wish to explore the historical monuments around Seoul city.
✅ Historically, the fortress was built as an earthen wall during the Goguryeo Period – around 2,000 years ago. Due to its significance as a protection wall, they kept on renovating them and developed over time.
11. Baekje Historic Areas
📌 South Korea
✅ Established : 2015
✅ The Baekje historic areas are a collection of sites built over the different periods of Baekje, spanning nearly 700 years from B.C. 18 to A.D. 660.
12. Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries in Korea
📌 Southern provinces of the Korean Peninsula
✅ Established : 2018
✅ Sansa consists of seven Buddhist mountain monasteries—Tongdosa, Buseoksa, Bongjeongsa, Beopjusa, Magoksa, Seonamsa and Daeheungsa.
13. Seowon, Korean Neo-Confucian Academies
📌 Korea
✅ Established : 2019
✅ Korea’s Confucian Academies, called Seowon in Korean, were built throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. They served as schools for scholars to study and improve by following Confucian principles
✅ Sosuseowon Confucian Academy was the first of these schools in Korea.
Source : http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/ATR/SI_ENG_3_2.jsp
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