Thanks!
South Korea is doing a great job preserving and restoring historic sites.
The Japanese did rearrange Korean society a lot. But fortunately they left the most important buildings intact at the palace. However, had colonialism persisted another generation or two, it would have gotten much worse.
The dynasty the Japanese replaced was pretty bad, too
And even to this day half the country is still living under a horrid regime.
Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the Korean War which is still unresolved.
Knowing one will never be able to travel to explore, you most definitely bring it to life through visual story telling.
Over the ages regions lose, and/or inherit other nations influence in a variety of ways with colonialism. If not destructive can add to the history, what upsets me some statues, buildings already standing become defaced by ongoing conflict.
One would really think humans could learn from errors of the past, alas we appear to run the hamster wheel of life creating more mayhem all the time.