The Place on Korea’s ₩1,000 Bill — Walking Through Dosan Seowon in Autumn
Take a look at the back of South Korea’s ₩1,000 banknote. Past the portrait of Confucian scholar Yi Hwang, there’s a painting of a man sitting in a wooden study, surrounded by trees and a river drifting by. That place is real — it’s called Dosan Seowon, a 16th-century Confucian academy built into the mountains … Read more