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The Taedong River (Korean: 대동강) [a] is a large river in North Korea. The river rises in the Rangrim Mountains of the country's north where it then flows southwest into Korea Bay at Namp'o. [3] In between, it runs through the country's capital, Pyongyang. Along the river are landmarks such as the Juche Tower and Kim Il-sung Square.
Looking back at our Hotel from the top of the Juche idea tower, Pyongyang, North Korea. Date: 6 May 2007, 11:25:00: Source: originally posted to Flickr as The Taedong River in Pyongyang: Author: Gilad Rom: Permission (Reusing this file)
The Taedong Gate beside the river in central in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, dates from 1635. Date: 8 October 2010, 17:28: Source: Taedong Gate, Pyongyang: Author: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada
The current gate features a granite base topped by a two-story pavilion, called the Euphoru Pavilion (읍호루, 挹 灝 樓), because of its grand views of the Taedong River. This pavilion houses two hanging name plaques, one, on the first storey, reading "Taedong Gate" and calligraphed Yang Sa-on, and the other, reading "Upho Pavilion", on ...
Taedonggang-guyŏk (Korean: 대동강구역), or Taedong River District, is one of the 18 guyŏk, and one of the six that constitute East Pyongyang, North Korea. Taedonggang-guyŏk is on the eastern bank of the Taedong River, north of Tongdaewŏn-guyŏk and west of Sadong-guyŏk (Sadong District). It was established in January 1958.
Major rivers of Korea. The Korean peninsula is mainly mountainous along its east coast, so most of its river water flows west, emptying into the Yellow Sea.Some of these rivers flow through lakes en route to the coast, but these are all artificial reservoirs, as there are no natural lakes on the Korean mainland.
The pavilion is located on an embankment of the shoreline of the Taedong river. Photos of the area were taken by Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune for research for his doctoral dissertation "Climatic Regions of Tyosen (Korea)" [ 1 ] The site's name Pubyok means floating walls , as if the site floats on the river.
By 2005, 70 murals had been found, mostly in the Taedong river basin near Pyongyang, the Anak area in South Hwanghae province, and in Ji'an in China's Jilin province. The following criteria were considered by UNESCO to merit the Goguryeo tombs' inscription as a World Heritage site: The wall paintings are masterpieces of the Goguryeo period.