Reilluminating the Site of Unified Silla's National Defense Temple 'Gameunsa' with LED Tree Lights

Gyeongju City Completes Extensive Late Repairs on 2015 Typhoon-Damaged Landscape Lighting

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Park Dong-wook] The night view of the Gam-eunsa temple site, a temple commemorating the dignity and spirit of Silla's unification of the Three Kingdoms, is expected to regain popularity as a new tourist attraction following a major renovation of the landscape lighting.

On the 9th, Gyeongju City announced that it had removed the old landscape lighting fixtures within the Gam-eunsa temple grounds and replaced them extensively with high-efficiency LED tree lighting.

The Gam-eunsa site became known as a famous spot boasting the largest-scale night view among historic sites located in the outskirts after about 200 landscape lights were installed in 2004 on the three-story stone pagoda and the surrounding bamboo and zelkova trees. However, since most of the lights, except for some around the pagoda, were damaged by a typhoon in 2015 and have been left unrepaired until now, it had been neglected by tourists.

Gyeongju City plans to actively promote the site as a marine cultural tourism landmark in preparation for the 'post-COVID' era domestic tourism revitalization, linking it with nearby cultural assets and the new cultural tourism trend of cultural heritage night tours.

Park Soon-gap, head of Gyeongju City's Urban Regeneration Headquarters, said, "We hope many tourists will visit to enjoy a walk along the beach listening to the sound of pebbles clashing at the Munmu Daewang Tomb, admire the evening glow of the East Sea from Igyeondae, and as darkness deepens, appreciate the grandeur of the stone pagoda illuminated by the Gam-eunsa site’s landscape lighting and the atmosphere of the surrounding bamboo forest."

Meanwhile, Gam-eunsa was a temple founded in 682 during the Unified Silla period by King Sinmun (31st monarch) near Daewangam, the underwater tomb (haejungneung) of his predecessor King Munmu. King Munmu is famous for his will stating that after death he would become a dragon protecting the country.

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