The history of this gate, South Korean National Treasure No. 1, begins in 1395 when King Taejo overthrew the last Koryo king and established the Choson dynasty. King Taejo decided to move the capital from Song-do (now modern-day Kaesong), the ancient seat of the royal court of the Koryo dynasty, to Hanyang (now modern-day Seoul). One reason King Taejo favored Hanyang as the site of the new capital city was because of the geomantic theories of pung-su (Ch. feng shui) whose practitioners told the king that the land around Hanyang was a propitious site for the newly established dynasty.
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