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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>TO: Hans Kim<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Further to your question
about how </span></font><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Korean arts currently
displayed at the National Museum of Korea were preserved during the Korean war,
please note the following.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Much</span></font><font
size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Arial Narrow"'> of the current collection now on display was not yet present
in the Museum in 1950. Much of today¡¯s large collection was assembled during
the last 35 years. In 1945 the largest museum in Seoul in 1945 was the </span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Á¶¼±Ãѵ¶ºÎ</span></font><font size=2
face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> </span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>¹Ú¹°°ü</span></font><font size=2
face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
which served as the foundation for the National Museum of Korea. During the Korean
War the museum¡¯s personnel packaged up the collection for safe-keeping to
prevent it being looted and transported to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
 w:st="on">North Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region>. (See citation below.)</span></font><font
size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Arial Narrow"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>You first need to read the
history of how the National Museum of Korea started and how the collection was
put together during the early years. May I suggest that you use ¡°Google Korea¡± and
enter ¡°</span></font><font size=2 face=±¼¸²><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:±¼¸²'>Áß¾Ó±¹¸³¹Ú¹°°üÀÇ¿ª»ç</span></font><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>¡± to find the
basic facts of the museum during the period of 1945 – 1950 and the war years of
1950-1953. --- Two sites giving initial basic information are: <a
href="http://www.koreandb.net/dictionaries/Viewframe.aspx?id=5024&ser=2">http://www.koreandb.net/dictionaries/Viewframe.aspx?id=5024&ser=2</a>
--- and <a href="http://www.donga.com/fbin/output?f=jvs&code=jv_&n=200510260132">http://www.donga.com/fbin/output?f=jvs&code=jv_&n=200510260132</a>
-- In the latter site (donga.com) note the following description of the
protection of the museum¡¯s cultural treasures by museum personnel to protect
them from looting by the North Korean military.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>There are many more sites that
come up on the Google Korea search engine giving information that could be
useful to you on this subject.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Sincerely yours,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Peter Bartholomew<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Royal Asiatic Society-Korea
Branch<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>peb@ircltd.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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