Kaesong 개성

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