Photo: Seoul Parks (Seoul Metropolitan Government)
Yongwangsan Neighborhood Park
용왕산근린공원
Park · Yangcheon-gu
Old maps record the hill as Eomjisan; "eomji" is a pure Korean word likened to "the first", and the hill stands at the entrance to the Cheonhoji plain, with the village behind it still called Eomjimi...
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Source: parks.seoul.go.kr
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