 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 |