Royal tombs of Joseon Dynasty, memory of royals live on

조선왕릉, 왕실의 영혼이 숨쉬는 곳
Korea boasts 40 royal tombs found across the nation... tombs of kings and queens of many generations of the Joseon Dynasty, which lasted over 500 years from 1392. They all remain intact and are uniquely historic sites amongst royal tombs. Their value is further enhanced by the fact that all the tombs of kings and queens who led the dynasty of an era have been preserved.
Our Hwang Hojun examines The Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty, Korea's UNESCO World Heritage.
The tombs of the kings and queens of the 500-year-long Joseon Dynasty are not only landmarks of the final resting places of Korea's royalty, but also a source of inspiration and awe for the entire world.
A special exhibition on the Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty has been going on since June in the National Palace Museum, displaying excavated artifacts, and even a genuine royal coffin constructed during the Joseon regime.
The exhibition, which will end on the 27th of this month, also serves to educate the viewers how the tombs were formed through the dynasty's renowned historical records of the royal rites.
The construction of a royal tomb progressed along with the state funeral of the royal family member.
It usually took about five to seven months from the death of the king or queen consort to the actual burial.
During that time, the most propitious tomb site would be meticulously selected according to the pungsu-jiri, an ancient geographic divination.
Then would come the grand funeral, with over 2000 palace personnel involved.
The coffin would be placed 3 meters below the surface level, then covered by multiple layers of earth, lime, and a mixture of sticky soil.
Thanks to this intricate and careful process, the royal tombs of the Joseon Dynasty have remained virtually untouched.
There are 10 criteria that UNESCO uses to assess whether a heritage candidate has outstanding universal value.
To be included on the World Heritage List, sites must meet at least one out of ten selection criteria.
The royal tombs meet three of the criteria... because of their distinctive tradition, their outstanding architecture, and their 600 year-long annual ancestral worship.
"It's unprecedented to have the tombs of an entire dynasty practically untouched and preserved. And it's also important to note that the ancestral rites have been continuing for about six hundred years."
In other words, it's the hardware and the software that makes all forty sites worthy enough to be recognized as a world heritage by the UNESCO.
The special exhibition also gives visitors a bird's-eye-view of the tomb and lets everyone learn about the structure of the tombs without physically being there through Virtual Reality.
Among the 40 royal tombs scattered over the 18 locations in South Korea is Seonjeongneung, the tombs of King Seongjong and his wife Queen Jeonghyeon, and King Jungjong, located in Gangnam.
The visitors are first greeted by Hongsalmun, a red gate with spikes, serving as the entrance to the sacred ground.
It's from here, where the realms of the dead and the living meet.
"The stone-covered path that leads up to the shrine is known as the worship road.
The lower path is called Eodo, or the King's Road, while the higher path is called Sindo, or Spirit Road.
Incense represented the spirit of the dead, so only the incense bearer could walk on the Spirit Road.
That's why even today, visitors are only allowed to walk on the King's Road."
On top of the hill is the burial mound, surrounded by stone-carved tigers, sheep, and military and civil officials guarding the tomb and protecting the deceased from evil spirits.
All of these,... mostly how it was,.. half a millennium ago.
"It's nice to see these cultural things have been preserved by Koreans and also makes me think that Koreans appreciate their cultural history."
"For more than 500 years, the royal tombs of the Joseon Dynasty have honored the memory of Korea's ancestors.
Today, the burial mounds and surrounding landscape offer a bit of serenity to those of us living in the concrete jungle.
Reporting from Seonjeongneung. Hwang Hojun, Arirang News."
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[@최윤석-d7q]

It's amazing to see that it's still preserved and wasn't destroyed when Japan occupied Korea and the Korean War. Amazing.

[@Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

I remember this. They allowed my family to go to the tomb directly because we were the decendants of the founder Taejo.

[@iGoBart]

Amazing. Would you like to give introduce the tombs for a video?

[@UniqueKwon]

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww thats cool! SO you're apart of the royal family? thats cool. Im from the Andong Kwon clan

[@yourdad-lb4kh]

For real cool man...when I visit korea give me a free visit too...lol just kidding

[@theaodias8833]

AMAZING.. Too sad my country is not really interested in preservation of our culture. They just embr being westernized.

[@100schlingensief6]

pelepens

[@natashakandy5384]

Many Asian countries bear a proud history with lot of magnificent cultures and traditions, I absolutely adore them, but now a days many Asian countries are being westernized and their beautiful culture is fading and forgotten, it is so disappointing...people should respect their beautiful cultures and customs should be countinued further... Diversity makes everything beautiful and worthy ❤️

[@orionfernandes4587]

I mean with the East Asians cultures it’s understandable but with Indian culture it isn’t

[@lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139]

Don't forget West Asians aka Middle Eastern and South Asians aka Indians.

[@lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139]

The tomb stone was build like circular and nothing like western.

[@cvbuy108]

I’ve always wondered about this since the burial mounds reminded me of the Chocolate Hills located in the Philippines. :D

[@mercyklinesantos]

Because I love history,this video is beautiful thank you ❤️♥️🇨🇦

[@Hamzep-ri6ci]

Nothing compared to Ming and Qing tombs and the previous dynasty of China

[@etymologist1976]

The Korean ancestors in ancient times of the ice age survived by escaping from the cold living inside caves. They constantly made a fire to avoid the cold and drive wild animals out and they happened to find the copper(CU, bronze). The Korean term Copper means caves and bronze. In addition, the tribe who had discovered the copper (called copper tribe) created letters originated by the characters like clessi, clethi, cle, glishi and so on.. Afterwards, they constructed a civilized country Gojoseon based on the bronze era. Eventually, King Sejong not only systemized the letters of Gojoseon and but also restored and compiled a language that contained sound(Pronunciation sound, 發音) for the purpose of establishing the identity of Joseon Dynasty. But this historical fact was distorted during the colonization by Japan. In addition, many cultural assets and the history of Korea were incorporated into Japan. Japan erased four characters such as 《ㆍ, ㆁ , ㆆ ,ㅿ》 among 28 letters. The reason why Japan damaged Korean history is that everyone may be able to realize easily that the owner of the pyramid was the Copper tribe and that Joseon people are the descendants of them if we Koreans still have those four letters. The first 《●》 means an initial life particle, the second 《ㆁ》 means the combination of yin and yang initial particles. The third 《ㆆ》 means the combined life particles coming down to the horizontal lines. The fourth 《ㅿ》 means the life particles are wrapped and protected. And 《ㅿ》 is three meaning mountain, pyramid and womb. Древний корейский предок пережил ледник (гул, кул) в ледниковый период и выжил. Они постоянно курили огонь во входе в пещеру, чтобы избежать холода и зверей Они нашли медь (CU, бронза). Корейский термин медь (CU, бронза, устрица) является термином для пещеры и бронзы. Кроме того, племя, которое нашло бронзу, называется медной группой, и они создают буквы, clessi, clethi, cle, glishi. Затем они построили цивилизацию Гойосеона на основе бронзового века. Чтобы установить личность династии Чосон во время правления короля Седжона династии Чосон, Вы написали и восстановили слова, которые представляют звук (Звук произношения,發音). Вышеупомянутый исторический факт был искажен японским колониальным кораблем. Многие культурные ценности и история Кореи были включены в Японию. В Японии четыре буквы из 28 символов Я удалил «ㆁ, ㆁ, ㆆ, ㅿ». Причина в том, что если у вас есть буквы выше, вы можете легко узнать, что пирамидальный мастер мира - это медная семья, а ее потомки - люди Чосон, что подорвало корейскую историю. Первый «ㆍ» означает начальную частицу жизни, Второй «ㆁ» означает, что исходные частицы инь и ян объединены, Третий «ㆆ» означает, что частицы жизни, которые объединены ниже горизонта и горизонта, опускаются. Четвертый «ㅿ» означает, что частицы жизни закрыты и защищены. «ㅿ» означает горы, горы, пирамиду, матку. 영문 과 러시아어로 번역해주신 meralyn선생님, Park Hyun soon 선생님께 다시한번 감사드립니다. 애민정신이 따로없으십니다. story.kakao.com/mepssi/EOzj8vNlSd0 《삼가 차려 서와 드림 》 #chosen #coreahistory #koreahistory #foreign_language #corea #korea #language #글 #글씨 #어원 #어학당 #어학원 #언어교환 #ИсторияКореи #가림토 #한글 #한글공부 #etymologist #history

[@erikjj235]

The weather is nice today.

[@kebireaydn2974]

Türkçe yorum yada alt yazılı olursa seviniriz

[@A72483]

Great Choson Dynasty

[@jerrywilson6299]

I heard that SUGA FROM BTS BAND HIS GREAT GRANDMA IS THE LAST QUEEN OF KOREAN

[@StephenMortimer]

About 500 years ago the Dutch and Spanish would be landing in Japan and Formosa ... can you really say that they (Joseon) did you any favors ??

[@stevenbaksh5545]

How did they keep the body fresh or stop it from decaying for 5 months until the funeral?

[@jollypong428]

they made a room filled with ice to preserve the body

[@shreyasingh8498]

good

[@kuyaGAMERofficial]

I wanted to open only jumong’s tomb

[@luminouspage4359]

AW, COOL

[@louisvirtudazo6981]

Korean need to accept back the royal family as a symbol off their country cuz without them korean history would be not so interesting...

[@erikjj235]

No. Korea is a capitalist democracy. No more royals.

[@negoitaniculina9485]

Amazing !!!

[@mrsdin3739]

Amazing.

[@jujomin5332]

Good 😍😍😍👍

[@slaarchitectspvtltd5778]

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[@kevsh4997]

I pity their last living Princess who is living in USA now.

[@jaewookim0830]

he has many descendant

[@ArtOfDae]

I'm not sure whom you speak of, but there is no princess living. There are descendents. But there are no princes or princesses as our Joseon dynasty ended and replaced by Republic. Our last princess died in 1989. She was a princess without a country and suffered mental issuses. Incidentally, our last de facto queen was murdered by japanese samurais in connection with japanese government. If you say there are living princes or princesses to Koreans, they will have no idea and get confused, and possibly mention the murdered queen as the last female loyal figure as she's very well known.

[@kevsh4997]

The last princess of Korean empire is traced and in a documentary. You should watch it. She's old. Do your research.

[@ArtOfDae]

@@kevsh4997 which documentary? Let me know I will check. Did you do yours? Quick google leads to this Wiki. Read the first sentence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Deokhye

[@petelosuaniu]

You know that Grammarly ad that keeps coming up? She is in a library talking very loudly. Rule breach!

[@yak2425]

1500s to 1600s is Joeseon Dynasty .... I think 🤔

[@joewalker4420]

Late 1300s to late 1800s the Joseon Dynasty lasted

[@Abkaijui]

Joseon: 1392~1897 Korean empire:1897~1910

[@siafe1343]

Please spanish subtitles :(

[@shoshi6055]

Nan Yue hey. That’s not nice. education is for everyone.