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Western missionaries founded this church in 1900. What's striking about it is that the outside is designed in a Korean traditional style, while the inside looks like a Western church. (Visit in Google Maps.)
Every palace needs a fortress to protect it and this is the north gate area of the fortress that surrounds the Goryo Palace and other important spots for the royals on Ganghwa Island for many years. From the top of the hill, we could see where the Yeomha Strait meets...
This spot was the capital of Goryo for while during the 1200s while the main capital at Gaeseong was being overrun by Mongols. It was also attacked by the Chinese in the 1600s. Not much is left, including the national library from which the French took what they could and...
This market on the edge of the main urban area on Ganghwa Island opens every five days. We just happened to show up on the day it was open. As they say, "가는 날이 장 날이다" (It's always market day when one visits.) This Korean saying normally has the nuance...
There are military garrisons positioned all around Ganghwa Island, but the ones along this strait got the most historical action because this waterway was the gateway to Seoul (called Hanyang at the time). Gapgot Heights protected the island going back all the way to the Mongol invasion of the 1200s....
A bit further up the Yeomha Strait from Choji-jin and Deokjin-jin sits Gwangseongbo, another waterfront fortress that was the scene of fierce fighting during the French attack of 1866 and the American attack of 1871. Strategically positioned in the waterway to guard boat traffic, Gwangseongbo was first built in the...
Just up the Yeomha Strait from Choji-jin, this spot got some fierce action in both the French and American attacks in 1866 and 1871, respectively. The rock on which Myunghee, Treasure and Cauvery are climbing in the photo below looks very similar to the rock on which the American soldiers...
This little bitty waterside fort at the mouth of the narrow Yeomha Strait which guards the entry to the Han River and thus to Seoul, had the good fortune to be attacked not just by the French Navy in 1866 and the American Navy in 1871, but also by the...
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