People of South Korea consider Ayodhya as their maternal place, this is the reason.

Ayodhya: There’s a deep connection between the non secular metropolis of Ayodhya and the North Asian nation South Korea. Based on Korean legends, about 2000 years in the past, Suriratna, a princess of Ayodhya, traveled 4500 kilometers by boat to Korea and married King Kim Suro, who based the Gaya Empire. She then turned Princess Queen Heo Zwang Okay.

Hardly anybody in India is conscious of this legend, nor of the truth that in South Korea, about 60 lakh individuals who think about themselves descendants of Suriratna think about Ayodhya as their maternal birthplace. A lot of them watched the consecration program of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya on 22 January by on-line mediums.

This superb expertise: Yu Jin Lee, who’s planning to come back to Ayodhya with 22 different individuals subsequent month, stated over the cellphone, 'This time all of us are planning to go to the brand new Ram temple additionally. We watched the ceremony on-line and it was an incredible expertise. I’ve not been to the momentary temple, however I’ve examine this controversy.

Queen Heo Zwang-ok got here to Korea from 'Ayuta' in 48 AD:Based on the traditional Korean textual content, 'Samguk Yusa', Queen Heo Zwang-ok is considered the progenitor of the Gimhae Heo households. It’s stated on this textual content that the queen got here to Korea from 'Ayutta' in 48 AD. She continues to be revered because the ancestress of the Gimhae Heo households of the Karak clan. The South Korean Embassy had additionally congratulated India for the consecration ceremony held on the Ram temple on January 22 in a submit on 'X'. The message stated, 'This place holds an awesome symbolic significance for Korea-India relations primarily based on the marital union between King Kim Suro of Ayodhya and Gaya (Korea) and Queen Sriratna (Heo Zwang-ok) in 48 AD. Is.'

In 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former South Korean President Moon Jae-in signed a memorandum of understanding for the enlargement of the memorial.