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Donuimun Museum Village - A Teleport to the Past

Today I invite you to the past! Let’s take a look at Korea a few years ago. The thing that I really like in Korea is how government and people respect and try to save their history. And they do it in a very unique and creative way. One of the examples is Donuimun Museum Village, which was officially opened in 2015 (If I am not mistaken). Short history Donuimun was the main gate of the west Hanyang city wall which was first built in 1396 but then was closed in 1413 because of the damage to Gyeongbokgung Palace. Then the gate was renamed New Saemun and the area inside it was called Saemunangol or Saemunan district. In 1915 during the Japanese rule, Donuimun was demolished in order to expand the road. From the 1960s individual houses were renovated into tutorial rooms and prestigious schools, so that area was associated with private education. But later these schools were moved to the Gangnam area. In the 1990s, many houses were transformed into restaurants. When most of the buildings we