Korean Garden - Representative Korean Gardens

Representative Korean Gardens

The most central and representative and relatively undisturbed classical Korean gardens are in three complexes.

• The Iseong mountain fortress of Baekje near Seoul, where one finds numerous rockeries depicting turtles, dragons or phoenixes
• The Anak Palace Garden of Goguryeo near Pyongyang, where one finds the remains of three rock Garden complexes.
• The Anapji Garden of Silla in Gyeongju is perhaps the best known, with three islands in the pond, man-made waterfalls in two tiers, granite basins of round and square design as well as hundreds of rock arrangement along its curbed shore.

Further important gardens, often historical recreations, are found at these sites:

• The rear garden of Changdeok Palace in Seoul, especially the Buyong pond with the pavilion of cosmic union.
• The Chongpyeong-sa temple near Chuncheon.