Buyeo Gunsuri temple site
Buyeo County, South Korea
The Temple Site in Gunsu-ri, Buyeo (Hanja) is the ruins of a Baekje-era Buddhist temple in Gunsu-ri, Buyeo County, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. On January 21, 1963, it was made Historic Site of South Korea No. 44. The site was first discovered in 1935, during the Japanese colonial period, by a Japanese person Ishida Mosaku. The temple's layout was identified and a number of artifacts were found. However, Ishida's research attempted to link the temple to Buddhist temples in Japan; a writer for the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture argued such research was done during the colonial period to justify Korea's colonization. It was excavated from 2005 to 2007.
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