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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello, I am new to the list, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I work at Mar del Plata National University,
Argentina, and I am a researcher on Korea. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Relating to old books on Korea, I see that most of
those online are written in English.- </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There is a very interesting book, which is not
online, by an Italian Naval officer Carlo Rossetti: "La Corea e i Coreani
agli inizi del '900", Korea and the Koreans at the beginning of 1900,
written in Italian, in 1903/4, now translated only in French : "La Coree
et les Coreens" (2002) . It is a 477 pages book, extremely interesting covering
all aspects of Korean life at the moment, history, economics, court affairs,
clothes, names, hats, sea ports,Kisaeng, Japanese advance and
Chinese reduction of influence, etc. etc. Amazing and wonderful Photographs
of everyday life in Korea at the beginning of the XXth. century- </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I am actually doing a research on Rossetti.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There are also many French, Holland, German and
Russian books and sources on Korea , unfortunately not online, at least
not that I know of.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mercedes S. Giuffré<BR>Magíster en Filosofía y
Ciencias Políticas<BR>Traductora Pública Nacional<BR>Facultad de Derecho y
Ciencias Sociales<BR>Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata</FONT></DIV>
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