The Historian · Hayoon · Seoul
Sungnyemun (Namdaemun)
This gate carries the number one for a reason. Its 2008 burning and rebuilding is also modern history — heritage is fragile, and this proves it.
The great south gate of the old city wall, first built in 1398 — Korea's National Treasure No. 1, and a rebuilt survivor of a 2008 arson that gutted it.
— Hayoon, The Historian
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