Independence Gate 독립문 獨立門 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Independence Gate 독립문 獨立門 / Scarlet Sappho
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Independence Gate was erected in 1897, on the main approach into central Seoul from China. This gate replaced an earlier gate, Yeongeunmun (영은문/迎恩門, Welcoming Gate for Obligation), which stood on this spot to welcome Chinese imperial envoys coming to Korea to collect tributes from the king; the pillars behind the gate are the only remaining remnants of Yeongeunmun.As Korea learned modern diplomacy and abandoned the traditional Confucian tributary arrangement to China, it declared itself a sovereign empire in 1896. Erecting this gate was the symbolic act of severing the old arrangement with China.The sovereignty did not last long; Korea became a Japanese protectorate in 1905, and a colony in 1910, and although two independent Korean states did emerge in 1948 out of Japan's World War II loss, South Korea was reducing itself to a colonial puppet of the US Christian Right by this point in 2008. Nevertheless, the Independence Gate continues to stand - as part of a park dedicated to the struggle against Japanese colonial rule as well. The Keijo Prison, built by the Japanese to torture and execute Korean pro-independence activists, is next door, and is also part of the park.The gate was originally 80 meters to the southeast, in the middle of an intersection. But the vehicular overpass in the background, built in the 1970s, necessitated the relocation of the gate to its current location. |
| 撮影日 | 2008-10-03 16:59:26 |
| 撮影者 | Scarlet Sappho |
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| 撮影地 | 서울, 서울, 한국 地図 |
| カメラ | PENTAX Optio S50 , PENTAX Corporation |
| 露出 | 0.008 sec (1/125) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.3 |