익산 미륵사지 석탑, 20년 보수 끝내고 역사적 준공<br /><br />The long restoration work on South Korea's oldest and biggest stone pagoda,... ( ) Mireuksaji Seoktap, is finally complete.<br />After 20 years of painstaking effort,.... the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage is officially revealing the pagoda in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do Province to the public on Tuesday.<br />In 1999,.... the national institute concluded that the country's treasure Number 11 was in serious need of restoration as the structure was unstable. <br />The repairs started in 2001,.... and the dismantlement of the pagoda alone took nearly 10 years,… making it the country's longest restoration work for a single cultural heritage item. <br />
