Koryo Musuem, Kaesong |
Gate to the Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
Gate to the Koryo Museum |
Large tree on the grounds of the Koryo Museum |
This was Songgyungwan, the central institute of education in the Koryo dynasty |
The Koryo Dynasty reigned over a unified Korea from AD 918 to 1392 |
The Songgyungwan Confucian educational institute was first erected in 992 AD |
Sculpture by the gate to the Koryo Museum |
Painted beams of the gate to the Songgyungwan complex, Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
Korean landscape painting, Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
Gate, Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
The present buildings date from 1602 after a fire destroyed the complex in 1592 during a war with Japan |
The Koryo Museum was one of only sites we visited which predated the DPRK |
Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
Taejo of Goryeo, founder of the Koryo Dynasty, AD 918 |
Model of Kaesong's Songgyungwan Confucian educational during the Koryo Dynasty |
Korean Ginseng |
This shows the relative cost of slaves...a cow is worth 8 boys |
Scene of Japanese marauders pillaging Songgyungwan in 1592 during the Imjin Patriotic War |
Battle scene, Koryo Museum |
Korean crossbows, Koryo Museum |
Carved stone dragon head, Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
Ceiling of one of the buildings of the Koryo Museum |
Diorama of pottery making, Koryo Museum |
Mae-byeong (male) vase from the Koryo Dynasty |
Koryo Museum, Kaesong, DPRK |
Koryo Museum, Kaesong, DPRK |
Bronze bell, Koryo Museum |
Bronze bell, Koryo Museum |
Buddhas, Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
Model of the Tomb of Kongmin, 31st king of the Koryo Dynasty (1330 – 1374) cut from the schedule due to lack of time |
Sculpture from a royal tomb, Koryo Museum |
Sculpture from a royal tomb, Koryo Museum |
Flowers growing along a wall of the Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
Modern building at the entrance to the Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
Modern building at the entrance to the Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
Gift shop near at the entrance to the Koryo Museum |
Stamp & gift shop, Koryo Museum, Kaesong |
Posters of DPRK stamps "For 150 days we will make everything" Kaesong |
DPRK postage stamp of the USS Pueblo |
Posters of DPRK stamps "Every citizen should be together forever" Kaesong |
Posters of DPRK stamps, Kaesong |
DPRK stamp with President Kim Il Sung |
DPRK stamps with President Kim Il Sung |
Gift shop, Koryo Museum |
Gift shop, Koryo Museum |
Main Street, Kaesong, DPRK |
Monument, central Kaesong |
Building in Kaesong with the slogan "Everyone follow and learn something from Kim Jung Suk" |
Kaesong tourist restaurant |
Korean lunch, Kaesong |
Korean lunch, Kaesong |
Korean lunch, Kaesong |
Tiger statue behind the restaurant, Kaesong |
Kim Il Sung monument at the top of the grand boulevard of Kaesong |
Monumental statue of Kim Il Sung, Kaesong |
Kim Il Sung, the Eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
...and the rest of the world's dictator's settle for "President for Life"... |
President Kim Il Sung (15 April 1912 - 8 July 1994) |
김일성 |
Plaza in front of the Kim Il Sung statue, Kaesong |
Kim Il Sung - the "Great Leader" of the DPRK |
Flowers with the statue of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, Kaesong |
Flowers with the statue of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, Kaesong |
Looking back down the broad, near empty boulevard leading from Kaesong to the Kim Il Sung statue |
Rush Hour, Kaesong, DPRK |
U.S. tourists are not allowed to spend the night at the Folk Hotel in Kaesong so we had to rush back to Pyongyang |
The Kaesong-Pyongyang Highway, North Korea |