6 attractions in Gimhae, including Gimhae National Museum, Daeseong-dong Tumuli, Gimhae and Bunsanseong Fortress.
Museums
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Built of black brick, Gimhae National Museum looks from a distance like a huge block of iron. The dark walls, evoking iron ore and charcoal, are a nod to Gaya, the confederacy known as "the kingdom of iron". The museum opened on 29 July 19…
Historic sites & memorials
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A low hill in the middle of Gimhae is the burial ground of the kings and elite of Geumgwan Gaya. Tombs were built here for over 400 years, from the 1st to the 5th century, so the site traces how the small polity of Guya grew into Geumgwan…
Fortresses
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A stone wall roughly 900 m long rings the top of Bunseongsan, the hill on the eastern edge of Gimhae. From the ramparts you look over the city, the Gimhae Plain and the lower Nakdonggang River, and on clear days as far as the sea to the so…
Historic sites & memorials
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In the middle of Gimhae, a round grassy mound sits among lawns and pine woods. The Royal Tomb of King Suro is traditionally identified as the grave of King Suro, founder of Geumgwan Gaya (Garak), one of the Gaya confederacy states. As the…
Historic sites & memorials
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On a pine-covered hill in Gusan-dong, Gimhae, a single round burial mound sits quietly. This is said to be the tomb of Heo Hwang-ok, queen of King Suro, founder of the Geumgwan Gaya kingdom. The Samguk yusa records that she was a princess…
Historic sites & memorials
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Bongha Village in Jinyeong-eup, Gimhae, is where Roh Moo-hyun, Korea's 16th president, was born, where he returned to live after leaving office, and where he died on 23 May 2009. It is an ordinary farming village known for sweet persimmons…