The interior view of a temple's main hall.
..a Buddist praying in a temple hall. Korean Buddhists genuflect like this in front of the image of Buddha.
Here at the Kyongju National Museum hangs Korea's most famous bell. Known as the 'Emille Bell', it was cast in 771 to commemorate the Silla Dynasty's King Songdok. It's 3.5 meters high and 2.5 meters tall and weighs 23,000 kg. The name of the bell comes from the legend connected to the casting of the bell: After failed attempts to cast the bell, the temple's head monk was inspired by a spirit in a dream to find a young girl born in the year, month, day, and hour of the dragon. She was to be thrown into the molten casting metal before it was poured in order to appease the fire spirit dragon. This was done, and the bell was successfully cast. However, when they went to strike the bell for the first time, it didn't boom like a bell, but sounded with the mournful cry of the child for her mother in the ancient Silla langauge-"emille..".
The only remains of a Silla summer palace, this granite watercourse called Posokjong was used by the royalty to play poetry games. Cups of wine were floated down the winding course to people who were to write a poem on a particular subject before the wine reached where they were sitting. If they couln't finish the poem before the cup arrived, then they had to drink. After a few cups, the poems were probably more difficult (or more easy) to write.
A Buddha figure carved into rock.

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