Coexではウインターフェスティバル開催中です^^

本日、１７日（木）ソウル市庁広場のスケート場がオープンしました^^

去年街で見かけた、ルドルフ タヨ。今年はソウルオリニ大公園で見ることができますよ^^

The Guui Arisu Water Purification Center supplies 450,000 tons of tap water to northeastern Seoul, including Gwangjin-gu and Dongdaemun-gu. Originally established during the Japanese colonial period, the water center expanded its facilities to include four purification plants by the mid-1980s and significantly increased its tap water supply. Although the first and second plants were decommissioned...   Read more

Jong-ro 40ga-gil, located between Jongnodaero and Cheonggyecheon Stream, stretches all the way from the four-way intersection at Jongno 5-ga to Dongdaemun Gate. The street is commonly known as “Dongdaemun Roasted Fish Alley” because of its variety of roasted fish eateries and Korean restaurants. The street gained in popularity through word-of-mouth among merchants of the Pyeonghwa...   Read more

The Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) was the first building in Korea to have electricity power, which it first used to supply modern electric energy to light up the streetlamps along Namdaemun-ro in Jong-ro on April 10, 1900. The KEPCO building was also the first building to be registered a cultural property of Korea. Hanseong...   Read more

When the Incheon Port was first opened to Western nations, a flood of outside influences poured into Korea, giving rise to new, modern culture and institutions. In Incheon, one of these institutions of change was the Younghwa Elementary School, where modern education began 113 years ago. The history of Younghwa Elementary School began in a...   Read more

Following the completion of “Seokjojeon Hall” by the royal family of the Korean Empire in Deoksugung Palace, the palace museum was built as part of Japan’s plans for transforming the palace into a park during the Japanese colonial period. Although the museum was in many ways an affront to national sovereignty, it remains an important...   Read more

During the late Joseon period, the Korean Empire was caught in the middle of power struggles between nations from around the world. After the assassination of Empress Myeongseong and the emperor’s escape to the Russian legation, King Gojong changed the name of the kingdom from “Joseon” to the “Korean Empire” and restructured the organization of...   Read more

In April 2014, the Guui Intake Station was transformed into the Seoul Street Art Creation Center as the first base camp for street arts in Korea. The former Guui Intake Station began operation in 1976 and was the largest intake facility in Korea, producing 830,000 tons of water a day. When the new Gangbuk Intake...   Read more

Created in the early Joseon Dynasty, Namdaemun Market was once a place full of vendors and shops that sold goods illegally; this well-known market became a legitimate market in 1897, along with the opening of Changnaejang Market at the site of the Seonhyecheong (tribute bureau) storage building. After the market was established and the local...   Read more

Muakjae, located outside of the West Gate on the road to Beijing, was adjacent to the Yeongeunmun Gate and Mohwagwan Hall, where Korean government officials received Chinese envoys. Yeongeunmun Gate and Mohwagwan Hall were major structures that symbolized the idea of “serving the Great”, an attitude that Joseon Korea held towards China. These two structures...   Read more