Pungnap Toseong
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Pungnap Toseong is an flat earthen wall built at the edge of the Han River, with a circumference of 3.5km. It has a long oval shape, spreading to north and south, and leaning slightly toward the east. Through a research conducted during the Japanese imiperialism period, it was identified that Pungnap Toseong was Hannam (South of the river) Wiryeseong (the first capital of Baekje founded by Onjo, the founder of the Kingdom).
At present, only 2.2km of its walls remain in Pungnap Toseong. Including the west wall, which had been destroyed by the flood, its circumference reaches about 3.5km and its area nearly 859,508m2. After constructing this central part, the inner wall, mainly composed of sandy soil, grit, clayish soil and muddy soil, was set up by hardening and heaping of earth in slant. On the top of the last earthen wall of the inner wall, pebbels were laid in 3 layers and trimmed stones were piled up inside 1.5m high with mud prepared with natural soil, and by piling up the central part in trapezoid shape whose lower part is 7m wide and 5m high.
