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Personally, if I were to choose hardware that the Seoul metropolitan area can present to the world, it would be...
In terms of infrastructure, Incheon International Airport and Seoul subway system
In terms of content, there are Gyeongbokgung Palace, Cheonggyecheon, Yongsan War Memorial of Korea, Lotte World, COEX Mall, and the Seoul Zoo to introduce.
Seoul Zoo's The site area is 2.82 million ㎡ (850,000 pyeong). Among zoos in the world, the only ones larger than Seoul Zoo are Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando or the Toronto Zoo.
Seoul Zoo is the only zoo in Asia to be certified as an excellent zoo by AZA (Association of Zoos & Aquariums) and has also been selected as one of the top 10 zoos in the world by WWF (World Wildlife Fund).
I feel this every time I go to Seoul Zoo, but there are a lot of foreigners and they all really like it, perhaps because they are not used to a zoo of this size.
Changgyeongwon in 1930
Sunjong, wearing a tailcoat, personally attended the opening ceremony. Hirobumi Ito was originally scheduled to attend, but he was assassinated by An Jung-geun five days before the opening of the hospital and was unable to attend.
At this time, there were 361 animals of 72 species on display, including those that were hunted or donated. The admission fee at the time was 10 won for adults and 5 won for children. The number of visitors in the first year of opening was 15,000, and the following year it reached 110,000.
By 1936, the population had swelled to 675 animals of 192 species.
Reconstruction of the ruined Changgyeongwon began in 1954, and about 20 organizations and individuals, including Korea Development Corporation, Chohung Corporation, Korea Development Bank, Gyeongseong Textiles, and Dong-A Corporation, donated money and purchased animals.
At the time, Samsung Chairman Lee Byung-chul donated an elephant.
The main gate of Changgyeongwon, where the tram ran in the 1960s.
In addition to the zoo and botanical garden, Changgyeongwon has various amusement facilities, a cable car, and a boat dock in the pond.
At the time, Changgyeongwon looked like a miniature version of Seoul Zoo and Everland combined.
In a poor country in the 1960s where there were almost no recreational facilities, the existence of Changgyeongwon was special, and every weekend it was crowded with people not only from Seoul but also from local areas to see it.
Changgyeongwon's legendary Siberian tiger Bengali
Bengali is a Siberian Great Lake that was bred in Changgyeongwon in the 60s and early 70s and is said to have weighed a whopping 350kg.
Bengari, who came to Changgyeongwon through a circus troupe, was so vicious that he even bit the female tiger he had brought with him to death. He could not mate for the rest of his life and died in 1974.
Changgyeongwon in the 1960s and 1970s
Changgyeongwonjeongmun, crowded with people
The elephant man's trunk is his hand, so when you give him a cookie, he takes it with his trunk.
Changgyeongwon’s seal shop
As expected, it’s so huge that people can’t stop walking.
Octagonal pavilion, cable car, and boat dock
You can also see Seoul National University Hospital nearby.
The opening of Seoul Grand Park in 1984
When the Seoul Grand Park Zoo opened on May 1, 1984, as many as 750,000 people flocked to it, and four days later, on Children's Day, the number exceeded 1 million.
The main gate of the renewed Seoul Zoo
The tiger statue at the main gate.
The tiger is the symbol and mascot of Seoul Zoo.
Male Baekdu (1989-2006), the king tiger of the Seoul Zoo
He is the male offspring of Hodori and Hosun, Korean tigers purchased and donated by Lotte Group Chairman Shin Kyuk-ho from an American zoo as the mascot for the 1988 Olympics. He is the second-largest Siberian tiger in history among domestic tigers, following Changgyeongwon's Bengali.
This Siberian Great Lake, born in 1989, weighed up to 300 kg and died in 2006.
There are probably some of you who have seen this animal in person, but I saw it in person at the Seoul Zoo in 2005, and I was overwhelmed by the size of a real tiger as it was the size of an ox.
It is said that at that time, there were many elderly people who deliberately visited the zoo to see Baekdu.
Since the 1990s, Seoul Land and theme zoos have been established and underwent extensive remodeling in the 2000s.
We removed the concrete animal shelters and created a natural habitat environment.
The tiger breeding space was also created as a new tiger temple with a waterfall and water hole, with an area more than three times larger than the existing one.
To a comfortable space Renewed Tiger Temple
Currently, all tigers at the Seoul Zoo are Siberian tigers and are registered at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany, which manages tiger genealogy.
Only those registered with the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) are recognized as pure-blooded Siberian tigers, which are endangered worldwide. It is said that the Leipzig Zoo in Germany, an organization in charge of bloodlines designated by WAZA, controls the population by exchanging and breeding individuals recognized as pure bloodlines using the bloodline records, that is, tiger genealogies.
Zoos in developed countries are operated for the purpose of preserving and breeding endangered animals rather than breeding them for exhibition purposes. Currently, Seoul Zoo also has various facilities, treatment, and research facilities on a large site, providing animals with a pleasant environment similar to an ecosystem. We are working hard to preserve the species.
In 2009, when the zoo celebrated its 100th anniversary, then-Director Lee Won-hyo of Seoul Grand Park said, "We will make the zoo a place where humans and animals can communicate and accompany each other, and a center for research and conservation of disappearing species and their habitats."
Elephant train running between Seoul Grand Park, Zoo, and Seoul Land
The most expensive lowland gorilla in the country, selling for 1 billion won per animal.
Seoul Zoo has a theme zoo in addition to large animals, and the Children's Zoo is one of them.
You can mainly see small herbivorous animals such as sheep and rabbits that are gentle and friendly to children.
Personally, my only regret is that I cannot see pandas at this world-class Seoul Zoo.
Can’t we bring the guy from Everland here?
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