Seoul National Cemetery

국립 서울 현충원

Seoul National Cemetery

SNC, essentially the Arlington Cemetery of South Korea, is the larger of two national cemeteries in the country.  Established in 1956, it is a cemetery reserved for Korean veterans and military causalities from the Korean independence movement/Japanese occupation (1910-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953) and the Vietnam War (1955-1975).  Also included are those that lost their lives in skirmishes with North Korea following the armistice agreement of '53.

The cemetery is divided into congruent sections for interment surrounding a large columbarium for inurnment and/or memorialization.

Late December, at the height of winter when most vegetation is dead, frozen, dried up and brown, is probably not the ideal time to visit, but you can get an idea of what it looks like and imagine how nice it would look in the spring or even with a nice snowfall!  

Also, Andrew is on a quest to really learn how to use the camera, so the real motivation for the sub-32° cemetery tour was to get a grasp on how aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings relate and interact with each other (that's why most of the pictures are pretty much the same!).