{"id":388,"date":"2008-02-16T10:17:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=388"},"modified":"2018-11-22T03:30:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T22:30:11","slug":"sungnyemun-gate-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/sungnyemun-gate-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sungnyemun gate destroyed,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/seoul-namdaemun.jpg\" alt=\"seoul-namdaemun.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Seoul, Korea<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The historic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Namdaemun\" target=\"_blank\">Sungnyemun<\/a> gate (<em>Namdaemun<\/em> in Korean, meaning \u201cGate of Exalted Ceremonies\u201d) in the heart of Seoul was destroyed in a devastating fire earlier this week. Considered South Korea\u2019s premiere cultural landmark and the capital city\u2019s oldest wooden structure (completed in 1398), the iconic gate was for Koreans \u201ca historical link that survived 600 years, multiple wars and disasters,\u201d as Icograda president Don Ryun Chang wrote me this week. \u201cWe are at a loss for words but hope there might be critical lessons to be learned for the future of cultural sustainability and civic governance in our country,\u201d he stated (with reference to the 70-year-old malcontent who has confessed to arson). I had the chance to visit the gate during the <em>Oullim<\/em> (Great Harmony) <em>Icograda Millennium Design Congress<\/em> in 2000\u2014seeing the pictures of Namdaemun in flames this week was sad, and brought back profound memories\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Photo of Namdaemun gate at night by <\/em> <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/gameimp\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u5357\u5bae\u535a\u58eb<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul, Korea The historic Sungnyemun gate (Namdaemun in Korean, meaning \u201cGate of Exalted Ceremonies\u201d) in the heart of Seoul was destroyed in a devastating fire earlier this week. Considered South Korea\u2019s premiere cultural landmark and the capital city\u2019s oldest wooden structure (completed in 1398), the iconic gate was for Koreans \u201ca historical link that survived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,14,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17021,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/17021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}