Verified historic sites & memorials in Daejeon — descriptions, map and practical info.
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Historic sites & memorials
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Daejeon National Cemetery is the resting place of people who gave their lives for, or served, the nation: around 150,000 are interred on grounds of about 3.3 km² (one million pyeong, a traditional Korean unit). Independence activists, fall…
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On a low hill in the middle of Dunsan, overlooked by the high-rises of the Daejeon Government Complex, stand a few thatched pit houses. The Dunsan Prehistoric Site was discovered in 1991 during construction of the Dunsan new town, and it w…
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In the middle of an apartment district in Songchon-dong, Daejeon, a graceful scholar's pavilion sits in a lawn-covered park. Dongchundang was the study hall of Song Jun-gil, a scholar who served King Hyojong as inspector-general and minist…
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This park in Gayang-dong, Daejeon, occupies the valley where the late Joseon scholar Uam Song Si-yeol (1607–1689) taught his students in his final years. Its heart is Namganjeongsa, a study built so that a stream runs beneath its wooden fl…
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At the foot of a low hill in Gyochon-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, a state-run provincial school founded in 1405, under King Taejong of Joseon, has stood for more than 600 years. It keeps the classic layout of a hyanggyo, a Confucian school w…