Comments on: Deoksugung Palace

By: gaemee

gaemee — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 04:24:50 +0000

“Is that any relation to Toksugung?”

Yes,it’s the same place, like Busan/Pusan.

By: whitey

whitey — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:03:37 +0000

I teach a class in the evenings at the City Hall Annex building, on the 12th floor. This is the view I have.

Nice photo. I’ll e-mail it back home to the family to give them a better idea of Seoul. Thanks.

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:13:40 +0000

That is first aerial shot of the palace I seen. Great picture.

By: slim

slim — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:06:41 +0000

Is that any relation to Toksugung?

By: sewing

sewing — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:40:02 +0000

Ah, were you in the 서울시 의회 별관 (Seoul City Council Annex)? …As opposed to the 서울시 의회, the building I mentioned before that’s further north and the site of various historic events over the course of the 20th century….

By: sewing

sewing — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:34:11 +0000

I’m trying to figure out the angle of this picture. The City Council building is different, I presume, from City Hall, if the view is looking north-northwest (as appears to be the case)…and also different from the old Citizen’s Theatre or whatever it’s called across Taepyeongno (”Pacific Street”!) from City Hall, and whose tower appears to just be visible near the right-hand edge of the photo (or is that another building?)

Anyhow, nice photo all the same. Looks like the Anglican cathedral in the right middleground? And what are those two older, grey buildings in the left midground behind the palace, though? I don’t recall seeing those buildings when I did the requisite palace tour a few years ago….

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:12:28 +0000

yup, a great shot… just too bad the sky wasn’t blue.

By: Nomad

Nomad — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:45:04 +0000

Did you Photoshop those trees into the picture? The only green in Seoul is the scum on the Han river ;).

By: NathanB

NathanB — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:54:26 +0000

That’s a fantastic picture. I used to work at a hagwon very close to Deoksugung, and I always regretted not being able to get a view of it from higher up.