... English-speaker guides groups through the complex, but though the information is interesting, you really can’t beat the freedom of exploring the palace by yourself. To do this you will need to come ... crowd atmosphere on the way in. On occasion half of the congregation ends up in tears, as Korean pastors have a habit of ratcheting up the rhetoric, to better exploit the national tendency towards ... buildings that once filled the palace walls. The Seoul Capitol, which had found use after the war as the Korean National Assembly, then the National Museum, was finally torn down on Liberation Day...