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Touring the Suwon and Yongin, Korea Area

Touring the Suwon and Yongin, Korea Area

After our night tour of Seoul, we went on another independent tour with Tours By Locals. This time we would be in Suwon area, about 20 miles south of Seoul. We would first visit the Hwaseong Fortress, a stone and brick fortress built in the late 1700s. It was badly damaged during the Korean War. A document, Hwaseong Seongyeok Uigwe (Records of Hwaseong Fortress Construction), was published in 1801 and was used to reconstruct much of the Fortress. It is…

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Seoul, Korea Night Tour

Seoul, Korea Night Tour

We took Tauck’s “Sakura Seas: South Korea and Japan” tour. The first part of our tour was centered in Seoul. We came a few days early to see some sites on our own before the start of the tour. Before arriving in Korea, we booked a private night tour of Seoul (through Get Your Guide). Our first stop was the Changyeonggung Palace, a palace we had visited on our prior trip in 2009. It was the third palace built during…

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