The Historian · Hayoon · Seoul
Changgyeonggung Palace
Nowhere shows colonial insult more plainly. They put a zoo inside a palace. I bring people here to feel what occupation meant, not just read it.
The quiet residential palace the Japanese deliberately humiliated — turned into a zoo and botanical garden during the occupation to shrink a royal seat.
— Hayoon, The Historian
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