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Photo Gallery: Ceremonious Seoul Part of the Places of a Lifetime series from Traveler magazine
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Young women perform a dance ritual at Jongmyo, a Confucian shrine where the ancestral tablets of kings and queens of the Joseon Dynasty are enshrined.
Photograph by Heimo Aga

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