The scenery before the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592.

 If modern rest around Gyeongbokgung Palace, cultural space, and royal history museum are linked together, their historical and cultural character will be further strengthened and become a cultural infrastructure in name and reality. Since there was dignity in the court culture in the past, the space called the palace contains the weight of historical time and the aura of culture that it was the best of the time. But how much do we know about court culture? It has been more than 20 years since the palace was restored by Japanese invaders, but it has not yet been restored to its original form. In the space called the palace, which was poorly recreated through the restoration project, a ritual event is held with more clumsy skills, and inside the real palace building designated as a cultural property, clumsy copies are displayed under the name of the reproduction exhibition. It is not easy to recall the dignity and dignity of the king, the ruler of all, from the strange appearance of the reproduced wax figure. Rather, you can only see a fake human being dwarfed in the magnificent space inside Geunjeongjeon Hall. Isn't this our sad self-portrait of "making a living palace" today? The ceremony of hydrological shift at the main gate of the palace takes place day by day between Gwanghwamun Gate and Heungnyemun Gate in Gyeongbokgung Palace, in front of Deoksugung Palace Daehanmun Gate, and in front of Donhwamun Gate in Changdeokgung Palace, but there is no space inside the palace to convey the historical weight of the Joseon Dynasty. The gatekeeper is just a substitute and has nothing to protect. The inevitable emptiness that comes from here depresses us. Even at the Jongmyo ritual held in the middle of the day on a Sunday, May every year, I feel the pretense of an event that lacks sincerity. Only when the person who succeeded the throne brought the ancestral tablet of his father to Jongmyo Shrine's shrine was he able to inform the whole people through the announcement of Daesa-myeon and past tests that his time had arrived as a monument.It is almost impossible to recall the story of the heir to the throne, who lacks legitimacy, enshrined the birth father's god in Jongmyo Shrine to secure legitimacy while watching the current Jongmyo ritual. Is the ritual held in the middle of the day a ritual is held every year in the middle of the night when the ancestor god who will enjoy the ritual food can only come down to the ritual given by his descendants. Even under these circumstances, as the palace was restored, events to fill the palace yard and exhibitions to fill the interior of the palace were being pursued under the name of utilization. Can we truly restore or reproduce the culture of the past? Are you trying to do that? Are you in a hurry to use it even though you can't manage it? The palace is not a park. The "Jongmyo Park Seok damage incident," which occurred in the second week of November, clearly showed that the previous concerns were not just rain. While constructing an office for managers in Jongmyo Shrine, he stopped destroying dozens of gourd stones covered on the road where the king, crown prince, and ritual specialists with incense and congratulatory gates walked. Of course, the stones are bound to be broken, and many of these have happened so far, so the history of the past may not have remained in the gourd stone at all. However, the important thing is the attitude toward cultural properties. It is worth asking the authorities who manage cultural properties whether they are forgetting that they are precious cultural heritages to be handed down to their descendants because they are focused on their current purpose and utilization. Since it is registered as a cultural heritage, you may think that it is necessary to be considerate, create a space to participate, and build an office well to manage it well so that people can get closer. However, if you really thought so, it is worth remembering why Jongmyo Shrine and rituals were listed as World Heritage Sites. The authority of Jongmyo Shrine made the "Abanggung Project" at Jongmyo Park, a legal event even approved by government offices, meaningless. The authority was illuminated as part of the national consciousness leaning on tradition and cultural properties. However, as long as homeless people gather on benches in twos and threes, and elderly people who have starved for a meal continue to exist as a still space in the middle of the city, Jongmyo Park will be nothing more than a false sense of authority that ridiculously drove out women challenging patriarchy. Cultural properties are like that. It must be alive in life, and in order to do so, it must not be an island from the surroundings. However, it is exciting and enjoyable for modern living people to enter the space and experience it, and to keep the space alive, but damage and loss of the original character are also famous terms and conditions. The palace or Jongmyo Shrine is a cultural heritage, not a park. Japanese colonial era We cannot go back to our place after correcting ourselves the status of the palace that has changed with the intentional establishment of a modern park. What is more disrespectful than women flying their skirts back and forth in front of Jongmyo Shrine is that a doll is placed on the roof, a seat where only one person could sit in an era. Isn't the still and helpless doll recognized as an image that embodies the identity and passive aspect of Korean culture? The relocation of the National Museum of Korea to Gyeongbokgung Palace means that it is not just the relocation of institutions, but the time when the palace culture can be reproduced. Forgetting the yesterday of our palace, which was distorted and shabbyly disparaged by the Japanese imperialism, and reproducing the brilliant past stems from the ritual of cherishing even a single chapter of Park Seok.