On Saturday I went to the Hwaseong Fortress in Suwon, a bit south of Seoul. This fortress was built in the 1700s during the Joseon Dynasty. It was built for King Jeongo as a place to bury the remains of his father and it is also suspected that he would have liked to move the capital from Seoul to Suwon and therefore needed a place to live when he was there. There is a wall, three and a half miles long, that circles the old fortress. I walked along the wall for a while, hoping to find some colorful trees. Unfortunately there were not many trees in the area, just a lot of roads and buildings which made the walk not as peaceful as I had been thinking but still nice and another piece of history to see.
We are starting to realize that with only four months left (all of them in the dead of winter) our weekends for any last sightseeing are becoming more and more limited so it's time to make sure we've seen everything we can! I think we've done pretty good on seeing everything we would have wanted to, at least within our area. Here are a few pictures from the Hwaseong Fortress:
Paldalmun Gate to Hwaseong Fortress
The wall surrounding the fortress
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