Namsan

NAMSAN is between Chung-Gu and Yong-San-Gu,it has 262m height and 1,029,000m2 area.It was called "Mok-Myuk-San", "Ma-Moiy" ( This is NAMSAN's ancest name), "In-Kyung-San".Granite is main rock of Namsan. It is located east of Naksan, west of Inwangsan, north of Bukhansan.It enclose central Seoul.when Teajo ruled Chosun, He made the wall for defense along these mountains lines,but now,it is left partial of wall. there are a several of facilities such as resting area, labrary and public buildings. The area of Namsan is 2.97 km2 and designated a public park for citizen. in the 1910, It was desiganted a public park for citizen for the first time and there is the stone ,which is written "the park for citizen" by Kojong who was one of kings in ancient Korea(Chosun dynasty), next to the gorvernment building of the unification of South and North Korean. There are the Kuksadan which used to do ceremony in Spring and Fall in the Chosun dynasty and the Bongsudae which used to communicate news with each province in the top of the Namsan. The Seoul tower, which is located in the top of theNamsan, is 236,7m tall and kind of the tower of transmission. it has the obsevatory which offers us to look around the area 50 km far from itself and various facilities. There are also the arbor which was taken after the arbor in the park of Topgol. Because it is preserved very well, there are pretty much mountain animals such as squirrel, pheasant even though it is centeral of city. I'm gonna tell you main facilities in Namsanfrom bottom of the Namsan. At first, there is play ground, which is 0.83km2 area, in the lowest area of the namsan. and then in the next lower area, there are the statue of Beakbum Kimgu and the agora of Beakbum. There is a fountain in above this agora fountain. Around fountain, there are a sveral of buildings and statues such as Namsan library, the statue of Anjunggun Eisa, statues of Lee hwang and Jungyakyongand plant building. In thhe east side of Namsan, there are natoinal theater, the park of JangChungdan, Ibukodochung and Dongkuk univ. In the park of JangChungdan, there are Supyu bridge which was moved when the river of the Chungge was covered, athletic facilities such as a ground of baseball and a ground of tennis. In front of it, there are the gymnasium of Janchung and the hotelof Sila. In the north of the this mountain, there is the schoolof Sungei.

The historic Namsan

The historic background of the NAMSAN After revolution, it was difficult for Lee SungGey, who used to take a revolution, to rule the city of GyeSung which had been the Capital city in Korye. If somebody make a new revolution, it was common knowledge in that time that he must move the capital city to new city. However, it was impossible to move to new city far from the city of GyeSung, therefore, they were trying to find new city, which were supposed to be suit for Capital according to environment of residence, the condition of weather and the theory of PyungSu , near by Gyesung. For example, there must be a moutain and river in prospect Capital city like SongArk Mt. and YeSung river in the city of GyeSung. Finally, they found the city of Hanyang which was suitable for the New city of Capital. There were palaces near by Jong-Ro and NamSan became the mountain for the Capital city as the mountain in South of the city of Seoul. BongHwaDae in Namsan Namsan in Chosun-dynasty had been a important role to transfer national accidents or various news to people. Therefore, It was a very important role in Korean. Now, Namsan has a top of broadcast whose role is similar to BongHwaDae, it means that Namsan is also core to transfer information to people just like old time. Namsan in ancient novel According to HeoSeangJun written by Park Ji-Won who used to be a novelist and theorist of practice, there was the main character, Heo seang, who liked to read books. However, his wife did't like that he always read books without work. She asked him to get money to keep household every day, finally he got out his house and became rich man. He gathered thieves in country and brought them to new island he had found, and then he help them to be a independent and reasonable household in order to save country which had been suffering from thieves. In novel, HeoSeang lived in Namsan, it meant that Namsan's sprit caused a man to be hope and reasonable, namely Heoseang stands for Namsan's spirit.

The various names of Namsan
Sin Hung Mun Hun Bigo	¡®We call MokMyukSan Inkungsan which is south of Capital city which is behind this mountain'
Hankyung Girak	¡®MokMyukSan is called Inkungsan, it means south mountain of Capital city, so we call it Namsan("Nam" means south and "san"means moutain.It looks like hoarse running without saddle. there is BongSudae (the building used for communication by fire)in around the top of the mountain. The top of western Namsan looks like the head of insect,which make silk fabric,what you call,JamDu(the head of insect's name) We can look over the city and lower field very well at this top.
DongKuk YurJi Bigo	MokMyukSan is called Inkungsan, it means south mountain of Capital city.The east soar mountain of Inwangsan became Namsan¡®
GuChupRok	MokMyukSan was called MokMilsan before being called Mok"Myuk"San. However the one of chinese ambasser writed down "Mil"instead of"Myuk" because the chinese letters fo Myuk and Mil's pronunciation is same each other.That how we started to call it MokMyukSan.

The tunnel of Namsan

There are three tunnels which pass through in the Namsan, and we call them First-Ho, Second-Ho, Third-Ho according to the time they were built. First-Ho, whose length is 1,530m, width is 9.0m and lane is two, is connected from Phil-dong in Jung-Gu to Hannam-Dong in Yongsan-Gu. On the September In 1975, It was repaired for the first time because it had some problems such as severe leaking water and unstable system which manage air-condition in the ternel after completement of tunnel on August in the 1970. Second-Ho, which is connected between Itewan-Dong in Yongsan-Gu and Jangchung-Dong in Jung-Gu, was built on December 4th,1970. Its length is 1,620m, width is 7.2mand lane is two. Its vetical side wall looks like the shape of semi-sphere and also the depth of lining for waterless is 500mm,It is thicker than First ternel. It was renovated in the wall which was renewed with tiles, in light and in the equipment of fire-work.Third-Ho ,which is connected between Itewan-Dong in Yongsan-Gu and Hwehyung-dong in Jung-Gu, is 1,280m long. It was built in March 31st ,1978 after it started to be built in May 14th 1976. Its side wall is like Second-Ho tunnel and lining depth for waterless is 600mm.It also was renewed in light and the equipment of fire-work when Second and Third was renovated. Third-Ho has very similar route to Second-Ho tunnel has since It is next to Scond-Ho tunnel. These three tunnel, which are connect between South of Hangang (Hanriver) what we call Kangnam and North of Hangang what we call Kangbuk, helped to save time to go from Kangnam to the down-town in the Kangbuk, it took half an hour to get to each place and to move population in Kanbuk. They also helped to drive through down town from the freeway of the Kangnam and the highway of the Kyungbu. However, Traffic jam is getting hard because the width of the roads in the tunnels is narrower than the freeway of Kangnam which is connected with These tunnel. It is adopted the even oneway system especially in the peak time. These tunnels are going to be renovated because there are still problems such as leaking water, management of air-condition and lightening system in the front tunnel.

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