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The Anhak Palace was the royal residence of Koguryo (277 BC-AD 668) after the kingdom moved its capital from Kungnaesong in Jian to Pyongyang in 427. Around the time when the construction of the palace was underway, there lived a boy named Isadal who was a slave owned by the royal family. One day the royal minister in charge of the Anhak Palace project looked through the design. Then, he called in Isadal and gave a strict order, saying, “Listen, Isadal. We’re going to decorate this palace of the king with coral bricks. You shall have to make the bricks. If you succeed, you’ll be given liberty as you want. If not, you shall die.” It was almost a lethal order, but Isadal was rather happy than afraid, for he thought living as a slave was no better than being dead. He made up his mind to make coral bricks at any cost as a treasure of his country and earn liberty like Noul for the reward. It has been 1 600 years since the erection of Monument to Kwanggaetho (391-412), the 24th king of Koguryo, a powerful state that existed in the East for a thousand years (B.C. 227-A.D. 668). The monument was built by King Jangsu, Kwanggaetho's son, in 414 to hand down his feats to posterity. It is located in Kuknaesong (Jilin Province of China at present), which was the capital of Koguryo. It consists of body and footstone. Its body, square pillar-shaped tuff monolith, is 6.34 meters high and 1.43-1.9 meters wide. A symposium in the field of social science was held on September 29 to mark the 1 600th anniversary of the erection of the Monument to King Kwanggaetho of Koguryo. The participants heard papers on the historic significance of the monument, a precious legacy of the national culture widely known not only to the Korean people but to the world people and the mightiness of Koguryo. Assistant Prof. and Dr. Son Su Ho, director of an institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, referred to the significance of the erection of the monument in the cultural history. The 13-storeyed octagonal pagoda stands in the ground of the main shrine of the Pohyon Temple in Mt. Myohyang, Hyangam-ri, Hyangsan County, North Phyongan Province. Built of granite, it is a typical stone pagoda of the Koryo Dynasty (918-1392). The pagoda, 10.03 metres high with its 6.58 m body, is called Sokga Pagoda.
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