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Even the historic Yongsan Park isn’t safe from the government’s desire for more housing.
A view of Yongsan Park, with the National Museum of Korea on the left.
Seoulites and tourists primarily associate Yongsan Park with the National Museum of Korea. Located in the middle of the southernmost strip of the park, it attracts the third highest number of annual visitors in the world.
Walking up to the front affords quite a sight. A lone pavilion, with its rooftop faded in jade green, stands in a tree-lined pond. Trace the gaze upward, and there’s the rectangular gap in the museum’s superstructure of concrete covered in granite framing the beautiful expanse of greenery opening up to Namsan Mountain and Namsan Tower. At the back of the premise is a children’s garden, filling the air around the museum with laughter and scampering footsteps.
