Stories
The meaning behind the monuments — history, food and season, told the way a host tells it.
The Story of Wolji Pond
Once a royal pleasure garden, Wolji Pond was engineered so that no matter where you stood, you could never see all of it at once. Here is why.
→Bulguksa & Seokguram: A Mountain Built as a Prayer
Bulguksa is not one temple but an argument in stone about how a person climbs from the world of suffering into enlightenment.
→What Was on a Silla Royal Table?
Fermented crab, honeyed grain sweets, and rice wine poured from a floating cup. The Silla court ate ideas as much as ingredients.
→Cheomseongdae: Reading the Sky in Stone
It looks like a simple stone bottle in a field. But Cheomseongdae is the oldest surviving observatory in East Asia — and almost every stone in it is counting something.
→The Grass-Covered Kings of Gyeongju
The green hills scattered through Gyeongju are not hills at all. They are royal tombs — and one of them gave up a golden crown and a painting of a flying horse.
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