It’s 460m from North Korea, the shortest Demilitarized Zone in South Korea

离北韩直线距离460米，在韩国非武装地带最窄的瞭望台

 
Ohdusan shows the best view when Han river and Imjin river meet. Ohdusan Unification observatory was built altitude of 118m at 1992 which distance 460m only from North Korea. Among 248Km of DMZ, this is the shortest. This place appears from Chronicles of the Three States and Goryeo Temple that Ohdusan Unification observatory was the important place of Military. Ohdusan Tongil View was built with the nation’s desires that about 1,800 inside and outside people visited.

汉江与临津江相遇之处，景色美丽的鳌头山。1992年，在鳌头山海拔118米高处建立的鳌头山统一瞭望台是离北韩土地，直线距离只有460米。在DMZ的248公里中，是宽度最小的地方。这里是『三国史记』与『高丽史』开始登场的鳌头山城址所在地方，自古以来是军士要地。在国民的统一愿望中建立的鳌头山统一瞭望台，自开馆以来至今共有1,800多万名国内外人士来访的名所

Above the circular view lays the North Korea. You would feel the separation when you see the North Korea people who farms. Ohdusan Unification observatory has diversity exhibition that helps your understanding of the reality of separation. The clothes, school books, and the daily necessities are displayed which the North Korea people use, and arts, pictures, sculptures, ceramics, and craftwork which kept Unification and North Korea are displayed.

登上圆形展望室，感觉遥远的北韩土地展现在眼前。当亲眼看到北韩住民务农的情景，南北分裂的现实更加令人心痛。在鳌头山统一瞭望台，为了正确理解分裂的实际情况，并重新凝聚统一的意愿，准备了各种展示空间。展示着现在的北韩住民使用的服装、教科书、生活必需品等，并常年展示着以统一与北韩为素材的美术、照片、雕刻、陶瓷器、工艺作品。而且，还有失去家乡的人们迎接节日，举办追慕祖先的望拜坛，还备有春节与3·1节、制宪节、光复节、中秋等上午12点开始，每个人击鼓祈愿统一的统一祈愿鼓。

Ohdusan Unification observatory makes us to think again of unification. Let’s have the time to think of real meaning of unification and images that you would see the North Korea in real.

看着临津江边美丽的落潮，再一次对统一思考的鳌头山统一瞭望台。令人感觉遥远的北韩成为现实展现在眼前，让我们通过统一的真正意义受到启迪的机会。 

 
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Paju city, Korea Tourism Organization, Ohdusan Unification observatory