The Historian · Hayoon · Seoul
Jongmyo Shrine
This long dark colonnade is the most sacred, least ornamented space in Korea. It is the whole dynasty distilled into silence. Nowhere moves me more.
The royal ancestral shrine of the Joseon kings — one immense, austere hall holding the spirit tablets of five centuries of monarchs. A UNESCO site.
— Hayoon, The Historian
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