Gwanghwamun

Gwanghwamun enhances by the bright flower beds and a blue bus. Gwanghwamun is the south gate of the four palace gates. Believe it or not, but the name means: 'may the light of enlightment blanket the world." The original gate was made of granite; however, it fell victim to the Japanese colonialism in Korea. The present gate, althought the most impressive of all four gates, being only a replica made from modern material (concrete) cannot be designated as one those numerous numbered Korean "national treasures."