Gyeongbokgung Palace and Korean Folk Museum
In front of the main gate of the palace, there is this big median in the road with these big sculptures Today, being ill-informed about the weather we decided to go to the main palace in the middle of Seoul. Unfortunately, we did not know that it would be thunderstorming and pouring rain most of the day, so it was a very wet adventure. When we emerged from the subway, it was not raining and we were able to take our time approaching the palace gates and take some pictures. The palace in the misty morning Main gate from across the street Dragon protector The guards looked like wax- mostly because they had fake facial hair! As soon as we bought our tickets, however, it started raining. Not pouring, but enough to get wet. We decided to head to a museum to stay dry since we forgot our umbrella. We went to the National Korean Folk Museum, which ended up being much cooler than I thought it was going to be. It detailed the history of Korea as f...