Children's Grand Park, located in the east part of Seoul, was originally created to house the mausoleum of Min Soon-Myung, the last empress of Korea. In the 1970s, the Korean government made a large amount of money and land available to develop the area into a family recreational facility. When it opened in the late 1970s, it was the largest park in Asia, being able to accommodate up to 50,000 people at any one time.