The Korea Times
Changdeokgung, the storied “Palace of Prosperous Virtue,” is widely revered as the most quintessentially Korean of the Joseon Dynasty’s royal residences. The palace was designed to harmonize with the undulating topography of Mount Bugak, making it a masterpiece of East Asian landscape architecture and a UNESCO World Heritage site. On Tuesday, the Korea Heritage Service announced a rare opportunity to experience this architecture in its purest form through a series of docent-free morning strolls through the palace’s fabled Secret Garden. The program, aptly titled “mueon jajeok (silent walk)," will run from May 14 to 17. For 90 minutes each morning, starting at 7:30 a.m., a small group of participants will be permitted to wander the historic grounds before the heavy gates swing open to the general public. In a departure from typical docent-led tours, the experience is designed as an exercise in "viewing through emptiness." There will be no narration and no historical lectures. Instead, visitors are invited to walk at their own pace, letting the morning light, the burble of gard
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