Gyeongbok Palace (Gyeongbokgung) in Spring

This isn’t the first time I visit this palace, but being spring, and with this good weather, this visit deserved a post with some pictures. Besides, if I am not wrong, after the Namdaemun was burned away, the Gyeongbokgung Palace is probably the most important tourist attraction left in Seoul.

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This is the place where the king used to rest in summer. It’s completely open and surrounded by this lake so that his majesty could be really cool.

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I guess it’s on this small boat how you get to the palace on the lake.

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His majesty’s throne.

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Detail of the columns.

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Another of the palace’s lakes whose aspect had improved a lot with the arrival of spring.

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I thought this was a nice picture, don’t you think? (UPDATE: It’s funny who this picture differs from these other from Kirai. Korean and Japanese cultures, while being similar, have quite a lot of differences: while in Japan he is the one and only king, in Korea she is definitely the princess.)

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Another couple enjoying the good weather at the palace. I couldn’t tell whether the guy is dressing as a tiger or as Pikachu… in any case, he could have more style 😉

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Already outside of the palace, we found this temple with the typical buddha’s birthday decoration, the same that we saw during our trip to Yeoju.