Photo: Seoul Parks (Seoul Metropolitan Government)
Bongeun Park
봉은공원
Park · Gangnam-gu
Home to Bongeunsa Temple, the park offers plenty of Buddhist experience programmes, and as a historic-site park it holds designated cultural properties including the commentary woodblocks of the Avatamsaka Sutra, the 'Panjeon' plaque written by Chusa Kim Jeong-hui in his later years, and the Seonbuldang hall.
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Nearby in Gangnam-gu
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Other parks in Seoul
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