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Ganghwa Ginseng Department Store [Tax Refund Shop] (주식회사 강화인삼백화점)

Ganghwa Ginseng Department Store [Tax Refund Shop] (주식회사 강화인삼백화점)

19.9 Km    0     2024-04-22

2F, 10, Hoenamu-ro 42-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul

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Odusan Unification Observatory (오두산 통일전망대)

Odusan Unification Observatory (오두산 통일전망대)

19.9 Km    70864     2022-10-18

369, Pilseung-ro, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do
+82-31-956-9600

Located in Tanhyeon-myeon, Paju-si, Odusan Unification Observatory was established to console the feelings of dispersed families and provide an educational site for the unification education through 5F to B1 in 1992.
The observatory is situated in the northernmost ceasefire line of the western front where the Hangang River and Imjingang River meet. It offers a wide view of Songaksan Mountain in Gaeseong to the north and 63 Building in Seoul to the south. Also, it is a valuable unification security tourist attraction related to Imjingak, the 3rd Tunnel, and Panmunjeom (Joint Security Area) stretching along Jayu-ro Road in the northeast.
Since its opening, almost 1,900,000 people have visited the observatory to feel the reality of the division, making this area the best national unification education site.

Odusanseong Fortress (파주 오두산성)

Odusanseong Fortress (파주 오두산성)

20.0 Km    11063     2021-12-10

Seongdong-ri, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do
+82-31-940-5806

Odusanseong Fortress is built around the strategic summit of Odusasn Mountain. The walls stretch across roughly 620 meters and were built during the Baekje dynasty. The fortress is built on the intersection of the Imjingang River and the Hangang River on the summit of Odusan Mountain (119 meters). The mountain’s slope is steep and stones used in the construction of the fortress walls are scattered here and there at the summit. These scattered stones are evidence that the fortress underwent repairs several times during the Samguk (Three Kingdoms) era and the Joseon dynasty, as these stones were evidently quarried and used to mend the fortress walls. Excavations have discovered a great deal of earthenware, white porcelain, tile, and iron arrowheads. Topographically, the fortress sits on a prime strategic junction and the Unification Observatory has been situated there as well. The fortress stands as an important object of study concerning fortifications and structures from the Baekje dynasty. It has been recorded on the stele of King Gwanggaeto, Samguksagi (History of the Three Kingdoms), in the Naekjebongi (Baekje Annals) and on Daedongyeojido (Map of Korea) that the fortress was the Gwanmi Fortress of Baekje, attracting many scholars and researchers interested in this period.