Bongwonsa (Korean: 봉원사; also Bongwon Temple) is a South Korean Buddhist temple in Bongwon-dong, Seodaemun District, Seoul, South Korea.

[1] More than 50 monks live at the temple and are engaged in education and social welfare work.

In 1991, while a new Hall of 3000 Buddhas was being built, a fire destroyed the Main Buddha Hall, which was rebuilt in 1994.In the summer of 2004, it was discovered that serial killer Yoo Young-chul had buried around eleven bodies of his victims near the temple.

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