The tradition of love locks in the Namsan tower

Most visitors They take the Namsan cable car to the top of the mountain And they continue their way to the tower to enjoy the views of the city, trails, restaurants and a gift shop. The main idea is Leave your brand with a love lock.

There are four observation platforms, and the highest of these platforms is the rotating restaurant, which moves at a speed of a revolution every 48 minutes, from there you can see most of the city of Seoul. The Namsan tower has the transmission antennas on the tip of KBS, MBC, SBS, PBC, TBS, CBS and BBS.

The locks of love in the Namsan tower appear in the new movie of «all the boys: forever»

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Love locks: a tradition of the Namsan Tower Park

The Namsan Tower is recognized for being a tourist and cultural center of the city of Seouland also for the romantic rituals of the lovers who climb the mountain and walk to the tower to seal their love with a lock. Travelers do not leave Seoul without first walking through the Namsan Park and seeing the communications tower closely.

Especially if they travel as a couple and want to leave a memory on the platforms turned into a romantic sanctuary that emulates in a certain way the well -known bridge over the Sena River, in Paris, but protected by the height of the city mountain in the capital of South Korea. The locks of love are hung in a ritual of love for the same coupleswhich can then leave the key in a mailbox that is there. All these keys are donated to different NGOs that help adolescents in a street situation.

For many years, lovers leave their samples of love in the form of locks in the bars and in general where they find them to hang them, becoming another attraction of the park. It is not known for sure where or how this custom began seal the love of lovers with locks And it is a recognized practice around the world. The greatest advertising was given by Alex Chu de Clazziquai and the Jo Shin Ae model who, matched by the power of the TV show «We Got Married»they made this image of eternal love popular in a chapter of reality show and now with the «To all boys movie: forever».