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`The Ministry of Communications is issuing these two stamps as the first part of a series of postage stamps featuring 10 most famous sightseeing places in the Republic of Korea. 1. Kyongbok Palace (The National Central Museum) Dedicated in 1972, this museum is situated in the compound of Kyongbok Palace, the oldest of its kind in Seoul. Its reinforced concrete edifice, totaling 12,850 pyong (about 42,470 square meters) in floor space, is a four-story building, which includes a basement floor. Built on top of the structure are the life-size replicas of three Korean Buddhist temples designated as national treasure - the five-story Palsang-jon Pavilion of Popchu-sa Temple, the three-story Miruk-chon Hall of Kemusan-sa Temple, and the two-story Kakhwang-jon Hall of Hwaom-sa Temple. The stairs leading to the viewing platform of the building are patterned after the Chongwun and Paekwun stone bridges of Pulkuk-sa Temple. The museum, Korea`s largest storehouse of its traditional cultural assets, exhibits a vast variety of historical treasures and relics which are categorized by era as well as by field of interest-archaeology, arts and crafts, paintings, Buddhist images, etc. For its superb quality and modern facilities, the museum merits and international fame. 2. Mt. Sorak (Kejo-am) An annex to Sinheung-sa Temple, Kejo-am was built by Jajang Yulsa, a Buddhist priest, in the ninth year of Queen Sondok of Silla 1,300 years ago, in a cave at the foot of towering rocky peak named Ulsan Bawi in the northern part of the temple. In front of Kejo-am rests a boulder measuring 2.5 meters in diameter. Nicknamed a ``Swaying Rock,`` it sways at the slight nudge though it is so heavy that a hundred of people can hardly lift it.`