The National Museum of Korea

The National Museum of Korea documents the history of cabbage-loving Korea up to 1910 inside an impressive looking building in central Seoul. (Admission – free)

Entrance signage

Outside courtyard

Main hallway

There were way too many exhibits to photograph, but these were some of the highlights for Zoe:

And here were some of my favourite exhibits:

Olden korean script (basically chinese characters).

Because I was born as a Rabbit in the chinese zodiac (year 1987), this leads to my favourite item – which I call “the rabbit king”. He is like a pre-historic asian Bugs Bunny.

Agalmatolite Zodiacal Rabbit - North-South Kingdoms period, 8th century Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do

A closer look at the rabbit king

Emerging from the museum several hours later