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Seoul Plaza
110 Sejong-daero, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Myeongdong Shopping Street
Myeong-dong 2(i)-ga, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Deoksugung Palace
99 Sejong-daero, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Myeongdong NANTA Theatre
UNESCO House, 26 Myeongdong-gil, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Bank of Korea Money Museum
39 Namdaemun-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Cheonggyecheon
Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea
Cheonggye Plaza
148 Seorin-dong, Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea
์Šคํƒ€์—๋น„๋‰ด(Star Avenue)
๏ผ“๏ผ Eulji-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Seoul Hall Of Urbanism & Architecture
119 Sejong-daero, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Seoul Anglican Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Nicholas
15 Sejong-daero 21-gil, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
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Aria
106 Sogong-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
La Seine
South Korea, Seoul, Jung District, Eulji-ro, 30 ๋กฏ๋ฐํ˜ธํ…”์„œ์šธ Main Tower 1์ธต
The Ninth Gate
106 Sogong-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Hong Yuan
106 Sogong-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Sushi Cho
106 20F Sogong-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Seven Square
119 Sogong-ro, Taepyeongno 2(i)-ga, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
RUBRICA Italian Restaurant
106 Sogong-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Toh Lim
South Korea, Seoul, Jung District, Eulji-ro, 30 ๋กฏ๋ฐํ˜ธํ…”์„œ์šธ Main Tower 37์ธต
MUGUNGHWA
South Korea, Seoul, Jung District, Eulji-ro, 30 ๋กฏ๋ฐํ˜ธํ…” ์„œ์šธ Main Tower 38F
Melting Soul
South Korea, KR ์„œ์šธํŠน๋ณ„์‹œ ์ค‘๊ตฌ ๋‚จ๋Œ€๋ฌธ๋กœ 81 ๋กฏ๋ฐ๋ฐฑํ™”์  ํ‘ธ๋“œ์ฝ”ํŠธ B1์ธต
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The Westin Josun Seoul
106 Sogong-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
LOTTE HOTEL SEOUL
30 Eulji-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
President Hotel
16 Eulji-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
THE PLAZA Seoul, Autograph Collection
119 Sogong-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Crown Park Hotel Seoul
19 Namdaemun-ro 7-gil, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Lotte Hotel Seoul Executive Tower
30 Eulji-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Travelodge Myeongdong City Hall Seoul
22 Sejong-daero 16-gil, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
์ด๋น„์Šค ์•ฐ๋ฐฐ์„œ๋” ์„œ์šธ ๋ช…๋™
78 Namdaemun-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Sotetsu Hotels The Splaisir Seoul Myeongdong
15 Namdaemun-ro 5-gil, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
Thomas Hotel Myeongdong
26 Sejong-daero 16-gil, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
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Hwangudan (Wongudan) Altar

112 Sogong-ro, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
4.2(137)
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attractions: Seoul Plaza, Myeongdong Shopping Street, Deoksugung Palace, Myeongdong NANTA Theatre, Bank of Korea Money Museum, Cheonggyecheon, Cheonggye Plaza, ์Šคํƒ€์—๋น„๋‰ด(Star Avenue), Seoul Hall Of Urbanism & Architecture, Seoul Anglican Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Nicholas, restaurants: Aria, La Seine, The Ninth Gate, Hong Yuan, Sushi Cho, Seven Square, RUBRICA Italian Restaurant, Toh Lim, MUGUNGHWA, Melting Soul
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Nearby attractions of Hwangudan (Wongudan) Altar

Seoul Plaza

Myeongdong Shopping Street

Deoksugung Palace

Myeongdong NANTA Theatre

Bank of Korea Money Museum

Cheonggyecheon

Cheonggye Plaza

์Šคํƒ€์—๋น„๋‰ด(Star Avenue)

Seoul Hall Of Urbanism & Architecture

Seoul Anglican Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Nicholas

Seoul Plaza

Seoul Plaza

4.3

(1.6K)

Open 24 hours
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Myeongdong Shopping Street

Myeongdong Shopping Street

4.4

(9.4K)

Open 24 hours
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Deoksugung Palace

Deoksugung Palace

4.6

(7.5K)

Open 24 hours
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Myeongdong NANTA Theatre

Myeongdong NANTA Theatre

4.5

(2.4K)

Open 24 hours
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Things to do nearby

Seoul Pub Crawl
Seoul Pub Crawl
Thu, Jan 8 โ€ข 8:00 PM
Seoul, Mapo-gu, 04049, South Korea
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์œ„์‹œ์บฃ ํ…Œ๋งˆํŒŒํฌ ์„œ์šธ
Tue, Jan 6 โ€ข 10:00 AM
์„œ์šธ ์ข…๋กœ๊ตฌ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™๊ธธ 49 B1, 03145
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Moonlight Walking Tour with Local Historian
Moonlight Walking Tour with Local Historian
Tue, Jan 6 โ€ข 4:30 PM
Seoul, Jongno-gu, 03086, South Korea
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Aria

La Seine

The Ninth Gate

Hong Yuan

Sushi Cho

Seven Square

RUBRICA Italian Restaurant

Toh Lim

MUGUNGHWA

Melting Soul

Aria

Aria

4.5

(951)

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La Seine

La Seine

4.5

(623)

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The Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate

4.5

(199)

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Hong Yuan

Hong Yuan

4.6

(201)

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Royal Rituals & Resilient History: Hwangudan (Wongudan) Altar Hidden amidst the towering modern facades near Seoul City Hall, the Hwangudan (Wongudan) Altar (ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ(์›๊ตฌ๋‹จ)) is a fascinating, often-overlooked testament to Korea's imperial past. This sacred complex, though significantly reduced from its original grandeur, was once the paramount site for the Korean emperor to perform solemn rites to Heaven, asserting the nation's independence and sovereignty. My visit to Hwangudan always feels like stepping into a hushed, sacred space. Built in 1897 by Emperor Gojong, the 26th and final king of the Joseon Dynasty and the first emperor of the short-lived Great Korean Empire, this was where he conducted the "Rite of Heaven" โ€“ a powerful declaration of Korea's autonomy. While much of the original complex was tragically dismantled during the Japanese occupation, what remains is incredibly evocative. The beautiful Hwanggungu (ํ™ฉ๊ถ์šฐ), a three-story octagonal shrine built in 1899, stands proudly, dedicated to the worship of Heaven and King Taejo, the Joseon founder. Adjacent to it are three intricately carved stone drums, adorned with majestic dragon patterns, which were set up in 1902 to commemorate Gojong's 40th anniversary on the throne. Discovering Hwangudan feels like unearthing a secret. Itโ€™s a place that transcends its compact size, brimming with historical significance and a poignant story of national pride and resilience. For history enthusiasts and those seeking a quiet moment of reflection away from the Myeongdong crowds, this hidden gem offers a powerful glimpse into a pivotal moment in Korean history. It reminds us of the enduring spirit of a nation that, even when faced with immense challenges, held steadfast to its traditions and...

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์„œ์šธํŠน๋ณ„์‹œ ์ค‘๊ตฌ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•œ์ œ๊ตญ๊ธฐ ์ฒœ์ž๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š˜์— ์ œ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ œ๋‹จ ์‚ฌ์ ์ด๋‹ค.

ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ(ๅœœไธ˜ๅฃ‡)์€ ์ฒœ์ž๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š˜์— ์ œ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ช… ํ™˜๋‹จ(ๅœœๅฃ‡)์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. 1967๋…„ 7์›” 15์ผ์— ์‚ฌ์  ์ œ157ํ˜ธ๋กœ ์ง€์ •๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์„œ์šธํŠน๋ณ„์‹œ ์ค‘๊ตฌ์ฒญ์—์„œ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•ด์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ์€ ์ฒœ์ž(ๅคฉๅญ)๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š˜์— ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‘ฅ๊ทผ๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ๋œ ์ œ์ฒœ๋‹จ(็ฅญๅคฉๅฃ‡)์ธ๋ฐ, ์˜ˆ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ โ€˜์ฒœ์›์ง€๋ฐฉ(ๅคฉๅœ“์ง€๋ฐฉ) ์ด๋ผ ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•˜๋Š˜์— ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚ด๋Š” ๋‹จ์€ ๋‘ฅ๊ธ€๊ฒŒ, ๋•…์— ์ œ์‚ฌ ์ง€๋‚ด๋Š” ๋‹จ์€ ๋ชจ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ์Œ“์•˜๋‹ค.

๊ตญ์™•์ด ์ •๊ฒฐํ•œ ๊ณณ์— ์ œ์ฒœ๋‹จ์„ ์Œ“๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์›๊ณผ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋†๊ฒฝ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ํ˜•์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์ผ์ฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ๋„ 983๋…„(๊ณ ๋ ค, ์„ฑ์ข… 2) ์ •์›”์— ์™•์ด ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ์— ํ’๋…„๊ธฐ์›์ œ(่ฑŠๅนด็ฅˆ้ก˜็ฅญ)๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ ธ๋‹ค๋Š” ใ€Ž๊ณ ๋ ค ์‚ฌ(้ซ˜้บ—ๅฒ)ใ€์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์•„, ์ด๋ฏธ ์ด์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์˜์‹์ด ํ–‰ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ถ”์ธก๋œ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ œ์ฒœ์˜๋ก€๋Š” ์กฐ์„ ์‹œ๋Œ€์—๋„ ๊ณ„์Šน๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ1398๋…„ (ํƒœ์กฐ 7) 4์›”, ๊ฐ€๋ญ„์ด ์‹ฌํ•  ๋•Œ ์ข…๋ฌ˜(ๅฎ—ๅปŸ)ยท์‚ฌ์ง(็คพ็จท) ์›๋‹จ(ๅœ“ๅฃ‡)๊ณผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์šฉ์ถ”(้พๆนซย : ํญํฌ์ˆ˜ ์•„๋ž˜์˜ ๊นŠ์€ ์›… ๋ฉ์ด)์— ๋น„๋ฅผ ๋นŒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹ค๋ก์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก์€ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ๋งํ•ด์ค€๋‹ค. ์กฐ์„ ์‹œ๋Œ€ ๋ฌธํ—Œ์— ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ํ™˜๋‹จ์˜ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ•œ๊ฐ• ์„œ๋™(่ฅฟๆดž) ๋˜๋Š” ๋‚จ๊ต(ๅ—้ƒŠ)๋กœ ๋˜์–ด ์ง€๊ธˆ์˜ ํ•œ๋‚จ๋™ ๋ถ€๊ทผ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ •๋œ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ ค์˜ ์ œ๋„๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹จ ์ฃผ์œ„๋ฅผ 6์žฅ(ไธˆ)์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹จ ์œ„์— ์ฒœํ™ฉ๋Œ€์ œ(ๅคฉ็š‡ๅคงๅธ )์™€ ์˜ค๋ฐฉ์˜ค์ œ(ไบ”ๆ–นไบ”ๅธ)์˜ ์‹ ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋ด‰์•ˆํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋‹จ์ƒ์ด ์ข์•„ 1411๋…„(ํƒœ์ข… 11)์— ํ™•์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹จ ์ฃผ์œ„๋ฅผ 7์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” 12์ธต๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‹จ ์•„๋ž˜์—๋Š” 3๊ฐœ์˜ ํ† ๋‹ดใ€”ๅœŸๅฃใ€•์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ฃผ์œ„ ๋‹ด ์—๋Š” 4๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹จ ๋‚จ์ชฝ์—๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋†’์ด 1์žฅ 2์ฒ™ ์ฐฝํ˜ธ๋ฐฉ(็ช“ๆˆถๆ–น)์˜ ์š”๋‹จ(๏ง€ๅฃ‡)์„ ์Œ“์•˜๊ณ  ์‹ ์ฃผ(็ฅžๅปš)์™€ ์žฌ๊ถ(้ฝ‹ๅฎฎ)์„ ์ง€์–ด ๋ฉด๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

์„ธ์กฐ ๋•Œ์— ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ์„ ์Œ“๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ๋ณด์ด๋‚˜ ใ€Ž๋™๊ตญ์—ฌ์ง€์Šน๋žŒ(ๆฑๅœ‹่ผฟๅœฐๅ‹่ฆฝ)ใ€์—๋Š”ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ์˜ ๋ช…์นญ ์ด ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.

์ด๋Š” ์ฒœ์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์ œํ›„๊ตญ(่ซธไพฏๅœ‹)์˜ ์™•์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ฒœ์ œ(ๅคฉ็ฅญ)๋ฅผ ์ง€๋ƒ„์ด ํ•ฉ๋‹นํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๋Š” ๋…ผ์˜ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ดํ›„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ์ œ์ฒœ๋‹จ์„ ํํ•œ ์ผ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ๋’ค ๊ณ ์ข…์ด 1897๋…„(๊ด‘๋ฌด 1) ๋Œ€ํ•œ์ œ๊ตญ์˜ ํ™ฉ์ œ๋กœ ์ฆ‰์œ„ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ฒœ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ธฐ์— ์™„์ „ํ•œ ์ œ์ฒœ์˜์‹(็ฅญๅคฉๅ„€ๅผ)์„ ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ์€ 1897๋…„(๊ด‘๋ฌด 1) ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ๋„ ์ฒœ์‹ (ๅคฉ็ฅž)์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ ค์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜์ •(่ญฐๆ”ฟ) ์‹ฌ์ˆœํƒ(๏ฅฒ่ˆœๆพค)์˜ ์ƒ์†Œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜์„ ์‚ฌ(็‡Ÿ็น•ๅฒ) ์ด๊ทผ๋ช…(ๆŽๆ นๅ‘ฝ)์ด ์ง€๊ด€(ๅœฐๅฎ˜)์„ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€๊ธˆ์˜ ์†Œ๊ณต๋™ ํ•ด์ขŒ์‚ฌํ–ฅ(ไบฅๅๅทณๅ‘)์—๋‹ค ๊ธธ์ง€(ๅ‰ๅœฐ)๋ฅผ ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ œ๋‹จ์„ ์Œ“๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

์ œ๋‹จ์ด ์กฐ์„ฑ๋œ ์ดํ›„์—๊ณ ์ข…์€ ์ด๊ณณ ํ™˜๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์ฒœ์ง€์— ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ™ฉ์ œ์œ„(็š‡ๅธไฝ)์— ์˜ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋•Œ์— ์กฐ์„ฑ๋œ ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ์˜ ์ œ๋„๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ™ฉ์ฒœ์ƒ์ œ(็š‡ๅคฉไธŠๅธ)์˜ ์œ„(ไฝ)๋Š” ์ œ1์ธต ๋ถ๋™์ชฝ์—์„œ ๋‚จํ–ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์žˆ๊ณ  ํ™ฉ์ง€ ๊ธฐ(็š‡ๅœฐ็ฅ‡)์˜ ์œ„๋Š” ๋ถ์„œ์ชฝ์—์„œ ๋‚จํ–ฅํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

์ œ2์ธต ๋™์ชฝ์—๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ช…(ๅคงๆ˜Ž), ์„œ์ชฝ์—๋Š” ์•ผ๋ช…(ๅคœๆ˜Ž)์˜ ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋ด‰์•ˆ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ œ3์ธต ๋™์ชฝ์—๋Š” ๋ถ๋‘์น ์„ฑ(๏ฅฃๆ–—ไธƒๆ˜Ÿ)ยท์˜ค์„ฑ(ไบ”ๆ˜Ÿ)ยท์ด์‹ญํŒ”์ˆ˜(ไบŒๅๅ…ซๅฎฟ)ยท์˜ค์•…(ไบ”ๅถฝ) ์‚ฌํ•ด (ๅ››ๆตท)ยท๋ช…์‚ฐ(ๅๅฑฑ)ยท์„ฑํ™ฉ(ๅŸŽ้š)์˜ ์œ„์™€ ์„œ์ชฝ์—๋Š” ์šด์‚ฌ (้›ฒๅธซ)ยท์šฐ์‚ฌ(้›จๅธซ)ยทํ’๋ฐฑ(้ขจไผฏ)ยท๋‡Œ์‚ฌ(๏ฅ‰ๅธซ)ยท์˜ค์ง„(ไบ”้Žญย : ๋‹ค์„ฏย ้Žญๅฑฑ)ยท์‚ฌ๋…(ๅ››็€†ย : ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ์œ„ํ•˜๋˜ ๋„คย ๆฑŸ)๋Œ€์ฒœ(ๅคงๅท)ยท์‚ฌํ† (ๅธๅœŸ)์˜ ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ์…”์กŒ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ œ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆด ๋•Œ ์˜์‹ ๊ถ๊ฐ€(่ฟŽ็ฅžๅฎฎๆžถ)์—๋Š” ์ค‘ํ™”(ไธญๅ’Œ)์˜ ์•…, ์ง„์ฐฌ๊ถ๊ฐ€(้€ฒ้ฅŒๅฎฎๆžถ)์—๋Š” ์‘ํ™”(ๅ‡ๅ’Œ)์˜ ์•… ๋“ฑ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฃผ์•…์ด ์˜์‹์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์—ฐ์ฃผ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ๋’ค 1899๋…„(๊ด‘๋ฌด 3)ํ™˜๊ตฌ์˜ ๋ถ์ชฝ์— ํ™ฉ๊ถ์šฐ(็š‡็ฉนๅฎ‡)๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ ์œ„ํŒ(็ฅžไฝๆฟ)์„ ๋ด‰์•ˆํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํƒœ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์กด ํ•˜์—ฌ ํƒœ์กฐ๊ณ ํ™ฉ์ œ(ๅคช็ฅ–้ซ˜็š‡ๅธ)๋กœ ์‚ผ๊ณ , ํ™˜๊ตฌ ํ™ฉ์ง€๊ธฐ ์œ„ ์˜ ๋™๋‚จ์— ๋ฐฐ์ฒœ(้…ๅคฉ)ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

1913๋…„ ์ผ์ œ์— ์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ์ด ํ—๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ํ„ฐ๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ ์กฐ์„ ํ˜ธํ…”์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ™”๊ฐ•์•” ๊ธฐ๋‹จ ์œ„์— ์„ธ์›Œ์ง„ 3์ธต ํŒ”๊ฐ์ •์˜ ํ™ฉ๊ถ์šฐ๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๊ธฐ๋‹จ ์œ„์—๋Š” ๋Œ๋‚œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์ ธ ์žˆ๊ณ  1ยท2์ธต์€ ํ†ต์ธต(้€šๅฑค)์ธ๋ฐ, ์ค‘์•™์— ํƒœ์กฐ์˜ ์‹ ์œ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. 3์ธต์€ ๊ฐ ๋ฉด์— 3 ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ฐฝ์„ ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฑด๋ฌผ์˜ ์–‘์‹์€ ์ต๊ณต๊ณ„(็ฟผๅทฅ็ณป)์ธ๋ฐ, ์ฒญ๋‚˜๋ผ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ์žฅ์‹์ด ๋งŽ๋‹ค. ํ™ฉ๊ถ์šฐ ์˜†์—๋Š” ์ œ์ฒœ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์•…๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•œ ๋“ฏ 3๊ฐœ์˜ ์„๊ณ (็Ÿณ้ผ“)๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ชธํ†ต์— ์กฐ๊ฐ๋œ ์šฉ๋ฌธ(้พๆ–‡)์ด ํ™”๋ คํ•˜๋‹ค.

์ œ์ฒœ๋‹จ์˜ ๋˜ ํ•œ ์˜ˆ๋กœ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋„ ๋งˆ๋‹ˆ์‚ฐ ์ •์ƒ์— ์ž๋ฆฌ์žก์€ ์ฐธ์„ฑ๋‹จ(ๅกนๆ˜Ÿๅฃ‡)์„ ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ตฐ์ด ์ œ์ฒœ์„ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์Œ“์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์ „๋˜์–ด ์˜จ๋‹ค.

๋ฐ‘๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๋‘ฅ๊ธ€๋ฉฐ(์ง€๋ฆ„ 4.5m), ์œ—๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ •๋ฐฉํ˜•(ํ•œ ๋ณ€์ด 2m)์œผ๋กœ ์ „์ฒด ๋†’์ด๋Š” 6m์ด๊ณ  ๋™์„œ์— ๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ณ„๋‹จ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

1639๋…„(์ธ์กฐ 17)๊ณผ 1700๋…„(์ˆ™์ข… 26)์— ์ค‘์ˆ˜ํ•˜์˜€๊ณ  ๋งค๋…„ ์Œ๋ ฅ 1์›”๊ณผ 9์›”์— ์ œ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์š”์ฆˆ์Œ์— ๋Š” ์ „๊ตญ์ฒด์œก๋Œ€ํšŒ์˜...

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Right beside Westin and from the right of president hotel exit and up a short flight of stairs, you will reach Hwangudan. Place is not huge, but calm and peaceful flowers are glorious and colourful. There is also a lift at Westone side should you not want to claim the stairs that's near president hotel.

The 3 drums have beautiful dragons sculptures on them and they are skillfully done.

There are 2 poke stops and 1 Pokรฉmon gym nearby.

Next to the base level, there is also a ancient looking Starbucks with great vibes. Normal chairs and also cross leg seating.

Wheel chair accessible and quite friendly if you...

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Royal Rituals & Resilient History: Hwangudan (Wongudan) Altar Hidden amidst the towering modern facades near Seoul City Hall, the Hwangudan (Wongudan) Altar (ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ(์›๊ตฌ๋‹จ)) is a fascinating, often-overlooked testament to Korea's imperial past. This sacred complex, though significantly reduced from its original grandeur, was once the paramount site for the Korean emperor to perform solemn rites to Heaven, asserting the nation's independence and sovereignty. My visit to Hwangudan always feels like stepping into a hushed, sacred space. Built in 1897 by Emperor Gojong, the 26th and final king of the Joseon Dynasty and the first emperor of the short-lived Great Korean Empire, this was where he conducted the "Rite of Heaven" โ€“ a powerful declaration of Korea's autonomy. While much of the original complex was tragically dismantled during the Japanese occupation, what remains is incredibly evocative. The beautiful Hwanggungu (ํ™ฉ๊ถ์šฐ), a three-story octagonal shrine built in 1899, stands proudly, dedicated to the worship of Heaven and King Taejo, the Joseon founder. Adjacent to it are three intricately carved stone drums, adorned with majestic dragon patterns, which were set up in 1902 to commemorate Gojong's 40th anniversary on the throne. Discovering Hwangudan feels like unearthing a secret. Itโ€™s a place that transcends its compact size, brimming with historical significance and a poignant story of national pride and resilience. For history enthusiasts and those seeking a quiet moment of reflection away from the Myeongdong crowds, this hidden gem offers a powerful glimpse into a pivotal moment in Korean history. It reminds us of the enduring spirit of a nation that, even when faced with immense challenges, held steadfast to its traditions and sovereignty.
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Right beside Westin and from the right of president hotel exit and up a short flight of stairs, you will reach Hwangudan. Place is not huge, but calm and peaceful flowers are glorious and colourful. There is also a lift at Westone side should you not want to claim the stairs that's near president hotel. The 3 drums have beautiful dragons sculptures on them and they are skillfully done. There are 2 poke stops and 1 Pokรฉmon gym nearby. Next to the base level, there is also a ancient looking Starbucks with great vibes. Normal chairs and also cross leg seating. Wheel chair accessible and quite friendly if you use the lift.
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Hwangudan (Wongudan) Altar, built in 1897 in Seoul, symbolizes Koreaโ€™s imperial sovereignty and Confucian rituals. It was used by Emperor Gojong for the Rite of Heaven, proclaiming the Korean Empireโ€™s independence from Qing China. The altar represents Korea's spiritual heritage, national identity, and its historical aspirations for autonomy and dignity.
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Royal Rituals & Resilient History: Hwangudan (Wongudan) Altar Hidden amidst the towering modern facades near Seoul City Hall, the Hwangudan (Wongudan) Altar (ํ™˜๊ตฌ๋‹จ(์›๊ตฌ๋‹จ)) is a fascinating, often-overlooked testament to Korea's imperial past. This sacred complex, though significantly reduced from its original grandeur, was once the paramount site for the Korean emperor to perform solemn rites to Heaven, asserting the nation's independence and sovereignty. My visit to Hwangudan always feels like stepping into a hushed, sacred space. Built in 1897 by Emperor Gojong, the 26th and final king of the Joseon Dynasty and the first emperor of the short-lived Great Korean Empire, this was where he conducted the "Rite of Heaven" โ€“ a powerful declaration of Korea's autonomy. While much of the original complex was tragically dismantled during the Japanese occupation, what remains is incredibly evocative. The beautiful Hwanggungu (ํ™ฉ๊ถ์šฐ), a three-story octagonal shrine built in 1899, stands proudly, dedicated to the worship of Heaven and King Taejo, the Joseon founder. Adjacent to it are three intricately carved stone drums, adorned with majestic dragon patterns, which were set up in 1902 to commemorate Gojong's 40th anniversary on the throne. Discovering Hwangudan feels like unearthing a secret. Itโ€™s a place that transcends its compact size, brimming with historical significance and a poignant story of national pride and resilience. For history enthusiasts and those seeking a quiet moment of reflection away from the Myeongdong crowds, this hidden gem offers a powerful glimpse into a pivotal moment in Korean history. It reminds us of the enduring spirit of a nation that, even when faced with immense challenges, held steadfast to its traditions and sovereignty.
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Right beside Westin and from the right of president hotel exit and up a short flight of stairs, you will reach Hwangudan. Place is not huge, but calm and peaceful flowers are glorious and colourful. There is also a lift at Westone side should you not want to claim the stairs that's near president hotel. The 3 drums have beautiful dragons sculptures on them and they are skillfully done. There are 2 poke stops and 1 Pokรฉmon gym nearby. Next to the base level, there is also a ancient looking Starbucks with great vibes. Normal chairs and also cross leg seating. Wheel chair accessible and quite friendly if you use the lift.
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Hwangudan (Wongudan) Altar, built in 1897 in Seoul, symbolizes Koreaโ€™s imperial sovereignty and Confucian rituals. It was used by Emperor Gojong for the Rite of Heaven, proclaiming the Korean Empireโ€™s independence from Qing China. The altar represents Korea's spiritual heritage, national identity, and its historical aspirations for autonomy and dignity.
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