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Place: Buyeo-gun

2016 travel diary 11: Buyeo National Museum and the tombs at Neungsan-ri

posted 17 May 20169 May 2020 updated 9 May 2020 by Philip Gowman 7 minute read
Baekje Gilt-bronze incense burner

Buyeo-eup, Chungcheongnam-do, 17 May 2016 10am. Buyeo National Museum Next stop was the Buyeo National Museum. Here, we were totally shameless in our visit. It was to be a precision strike: go and see the the famous Gilt Bronze Incense Burner of Baekje and get out quick: we had an appointment in Sancheong. But of […]

2016 travel diary 10: early morning in Baekje Cultural Land

posted 17 May 201615 May 2020 updated 15 May 2020 by Philip Gowman 9 minute read
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Gyuam-myeon, Buyeo-gun, Chungchongnam-do, 17 May 2016, 7am. Lotte and early Korea-Japan connections Baekje is known for its close ties to early Japan. According to one version of events, Empress Jingu was an invader from the Korean peninsula and had Baekje blood in her. Such a controversial hypothesis does not appear as a possibility on Jingu’s […]

Song Si-yeol, the scholar with the chisel

posted 16 May 201612 May 2020 updated 12 May 2020 by Philip Gowman 5 minute read
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I have now visited three places where Joseon dynasty scholar-official Song Si-yeol has made his mark. In none of the places did I register the connection until after returning to London; in two of the places I never got to see the mark he left (there wasn’t enough time on the schedule) and in the […]

2016 travel diary 9: Busosanseong – the Baekje royal garden

posted 16 May 20169 May 2020 updated 9 May 2020 by Philip Gowman 10 minute read
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Buyeo-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, 16 May 2016, 5:30pm. The Archaeological Site in Gwanbuk-ri Sometimes, collecting UNESCO points is not as fulfilling as it might be. The item of heritage that has been registered might not be particularly exciting to look at, even though it is historically important. But if a site is historically important you may well […]

2016 travel diary 8: Buyeo’s Jeongnimsa Temple Site

posted 16 May 201612 May 2020 updated 12 May 2020 by Philip Gowman 4 minute read
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Buyeo-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, 16 May 2016, 4:45pm. The sun is still hot as we arrive at our destination. We walk slowly, as there is little shade, past the ticket office to where is a wide, flat open space in the middle of which is National Treasure #9: the five storey stone pagoda of Jeongnimsa Temple. Is one allowed […]

2016 travel diary 5: An introduction to the Baekje Historic Areas

posted 16 May 20169 May 2020 updated 9 May 2020 by Philip Gowman 3 minute read
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Gongju, Chungcheongnam-do, 16 May 2016 The kingdom of Baekje had its beginnings as a small state founded on the south banks of the Han River in 18 BCE by King Onjo. The people were largely of Buyeo origins – an early kingdom absorbed into Goguryeo. The kingdom gradually grew, absorbing the small Mahan states to […]

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