While walking along the wall, I could find so many wall stones which have been using as house foundation and blocks.
With the colonial rule by imperial Japan, the wall of Choson dynasty had been collapsed quickly.
Some walls were removed for house building and stones were changed it’s mission from nation defence to house defence or house building foundation.
So I felt it a kinds of tragedy when I saw the stones which were originally wall stones.
some stones became the wall of a house.
some walls became a foundation of a house building
They build a house on the wall.
Small gate of the wall was blocked.
Some walls were cut by the house building.
Could it be possible in normal country ?
The nation, king and nobles could not defend their country and people.
So people didn’t need show respect to the wall and think the wall important.
So they use the wall stones for their house building. I could find so many stones using for house building.
steps
not only for the poor, but also the rich
No one ever had restraint to remove walls and move the stones.
That’s the traces caused by the tragedy of history.
The wall had suffered the historical pain with it’s people.