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 The Great South Gate Burns Down
« Thread Started on Feb 29, 2008, 3:35pm »

I know most of you don't know about this structure, and this is 2 weeks old news, but the Great South Gate(known as Nam-dae-moon, or SungNyeMun), Korea's famous trademark, and also the National Treasure no. 1 in Korea that had endured more than 600 years of history in Korea have burned down by one crazy, Korean citizen who got angry at the Governement for not getting much money for his land(somewhere along that line of crazy reason). The oldest standing wooden structure in Korea that had pretty much became a symbol for Korea all these years.

Here is the Youtube video of the Korean News Reel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCh6mQX7ROM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxdSEK49ddE

BBC article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7238210.stm


Some pics of it before it's destruction:

http://www.twip.org/photo/asia/korea-south/photo-2457-29-05-07-05-41-42.jpg

http://www.davidalvaradophotography.com/Portfolio_13_files/Port13Big.jpg

http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Pictures/namdaemun1.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2245/1571511045_148cf5c1df.jpg
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