The former tainan weather observatory

During Japanese colonial times, a weather observatory was constructed on the Jiuling Tableland. It’s location was on the highest hill in old Tainan City, but this would only have been apparent before the 1970s when there were no tall buildings.

Kenting National Forest Recreation Area

Kenting National Forest was originally known as Kuraluts when it was a Paiwan Village until Chinese farmers arrived in the late 1800s. In the early 20^thcentury under Japanese colonial rule, a tropical plant nursery was established, but when WW11 ended, the nursery was converted into a botanical garden. Research continued, but the location now promoted tourism and ecotourism as well.

Sites of Korea’s dark tourism

During the Joseon period, smoke signal stations and beacon mounds were used to transmit urgent political or military news by smoke or torchlight. These stations were built on hills where there had once been additional stations roughly six kilometres to the east and west of Sagye-ri’s station.

An ancient underwater tomb

200 metres off South Korea’s eastern shore from Bonggildaewangam Beach lay King Manmu’s tomb. Within a natural cluster of rocks his remains were buried under the tortoise-shaped rock lying underwater in the centre of the rock formation.

Bulguksa Temple, Gyeongju

Construction began on this temple in 751 and took twenty-three years to complete. This was a huge undertaking with some eighty buildings. It was the centre for Silla Buddhism that prayed for the protection from foreign invasion.