A weapons cache on the outer wall. 

The backside 

On top of a ridgeline on the outer wall of the fortress...Asian forts are sooo much more interesting than modern day military bases 

Another detail... 

Looking through a guard post. 

A fortress south of Seoul...The total wall covers a distance of about 6 km around. 

No comment... 

A closer image from the front 

This was used to entertain guests...kinda puts the ole patio to shame, yeah? 

 

A random doorway inside the palace 

 

Great colors 

The main gate at the Palace 

Same 

Monument to the Korean War 

From the War Memorial in Seoul 

Freedom Bridge. The site where POWs were exchanged after the war. 

Whether one passes on or remains is all the same.
That you can take no one with you is the only difference.
Ah, how pleasant! Two awakenings and one sleep.
This dream of a fleeing world! The roseate hues of early dawn!
-Tokugawa Ieyasu

Though I decay into the fields
in the midst of our revenge,
I will be reborn seven times
to seize my sword
-Tadamichi Kuribayashi 

Sweet springtime showers
and no words can express
how sad it all is
-Buson 

A sheet of rain,
Only one man remains among
cherry blossom shadows
-Issa 

A world of trials
and if the cherry blossoms
it simply blossoms
-Issa 

From every direction
cherry blossoms blow
into Lake Biwa 
-Basho;

The park near my house