South Korea stopped assigning numbers to its national ... Koreans watched helplessly on TV as the wooden pagoda atop the arch-shaped stone gate became engulfed in flames. Sungnyemun, one of ...

The author is an architect and professor emeritus at Korea National University ... construction of monumental wooden towers, ...

Inside sarira Hall a stone sarira pagoda contains a wooden pagoda inlaid with "seven treasures." The miniature pagoda is carefully kept inside the wooden pagoda. Every effort has been taken to ...

Historic book de-listed as a state treasure after it was discovered to be stolen ...