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Today, I went to Changgyeong Palace. It is one of the main palace in Seoul. King 성종 is the one who built this palace for his mother and grandmother. It changed into a zoo once by Japan, but portunatly it was restored in 1984.
Changgyeong Palace have three main parts. It is Outer Palace, Inner Palace and backyard. In Outer Palace, there are 명정전, 문정전, 숭문당. Which were used for official works and events. The Inner Palace was used for daily lives of royal family. There are 경춘전, 환경전, 양화당, 통명전 in Inner Palace. 명정전 was where the civil service exams were held and did civil, military officials review too. 환경전 is a living room for king. 중종 built this, however he also passed away here. In addition, there is 통명전, for queens and crown princesses. Almost every queens that we know stayed here.
Actually we didn’t have enough time to sightsee backyards. If I can, I want to come again and see backyards too. Also before I came here, I just thought Changgyeong Palace was small useless Palace. But I figured out it was wrong today.
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