The Historian · Hayoon · Seoul
Deoksugung Palace
This is the palace of a dynasty trying to survive modernity. The clash of a Korean throne hall and a neoclassical hall is the whole tragedy in one courtyard.
The small downtown palace where a cornered king declared the Korean Empire in 1897, mixing wooden throne halls with Western stone pavilions.
— Hayoon, The Historian
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