Daehanminguk update

My Lady Friend and I are in Gyeongju, the former capital of the ancient Silla kingdom. The area is renowned for its ruins and restored temples. One of them is Seokguram, a grotto built atop a mountain ridge southeast of Gyeongju. The statue inside the grotto depicts Shakyamuni Buddha. The original construction is dated circa 750 AD.




Seokguram has been been restored twice, first in the 1910s and again in the 1960s. There's been recent news about how these restorations might have been flawed. [see photos; text in Korean]

In any case, Seokguram grotto and the nearby Bulguksa temple, which we also visited, are UNESCO World Heritage sites.