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<b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">International
Symposium Highlights the Recent Discovery of <o:p></o:p></span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a Korean
National Treasure in UW-Milwaukee’s Library Collection<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i
style="">Rare 19-century map is the centerpiece of a conference timed
with <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i
style="">“Korea Day” cultural activities at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">MILWAUKEE,
WIS. (November 2009) – A rare 1861 map designated as a National
Treasure in
Korea will be the focus of an international academic conference on
November 20<sup>th</sup>
at UW-Milwaukee’s American Geographical Society Library. Distinguished
scholars
from Korea and the US will give presentations about the <i style="">Daedong
yeojido</i> (“Territorial Map of the Great East”), which was
recently identified in the AGS Library collection after more than a
century in
obscurity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
all-day conference begins at 9:30 A.M. with lectures by Dr. Kihuk Kim
(Pusan
National University and president of the Association of Old Korean Map
Studies
in Korea); Dr. Kibong Lee (Rare Book Section, National Library of
Korea); and
Drs. Suk-Soo Kim and Halla Kim (University of Nebraska at Omaha).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
afternoon session features a special lecture at 1:30 P.M. by Dr. Gari
Ledyard
(King Sejong Professor Emeritus of Korean Studies at Columbia
University). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">During
the conference, the <i style="">Daedong yeojido</i>
will be on display along with other archival Korean maps and
photographs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Background and
significance of the Daedong yeojido <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In
December 2008, researchers from the Korean Consulate in Chicago visited
the UWM
Libraries' AGS Library, accompanied by UWM School of Information
Studies
faculty member Wooseob Jeong. The researchers quickly recognized that
one of
the maps in the collection was the <i style="">Daedong
yeojido</i>, a map designated a National Treasure in Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Very
few complete copies of the <i style="">Daedong
yeojido</i> survive. In the United States, only UWM’s AGS Library and
the
University of California-Berkeley own the 1861 version. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
<i style="">Daedong yeojido</i> was produced by the
great Korean geographer Kim Jeongho. The map is a single map on
twenty-two
folded sheets and when displayed open, measures nearly thirteen feet
wide and
twenty feet in length.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">At
a scale of about 1:162,000, the map is a wood-block print that includes
two
inset maps of Seoul, texts, diagrams, and a hand-drawn index sheet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It
is believed Kim walked the length and breadth of Korea several times
gathering
data for the <i style="">Daedong yeojido</i>. In the
1860s, Korea was in a state of alarm over a potential Western invasion,
and the
high level of detail and the extensive publication costs of Kim's map
suggest
it was made in preparation for war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kim
was jailed in 1864, some scholars speculate, because a new government
thought
he had compromised national security through the release of this
detailed and
accurate map.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
map is part of a collection of Korea-related materials – including
several
maps, an atlas, and forty-three photographs of Korea -- which had been
originally purchased by the American Geographical Society of New York
in 1895
from the father of American diplomat George C. Foulk. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In
1883, Foulk served as a translator for Korean delegates who visited the
United
States as part of the first recorded Korean diplomatic visit to the
West. Foulk
accompanied the mission back to Korea as a U.S. Naval attaché and
undertook a
900-mile journey of the country by sedan chair in September and October
1884,
during which time he kept a detailed journal, took photographs, and may
have
used the <i style="">Daedong yeojido</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Korea Day at
UWM<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
conference is being held in conjunction with “Korea Day,” a cultural
celebration at UWM. In addition to the conference, a lunch program
featuring
traditional Korean cultural activities will be held in Greene Hall on
the UWM
campus at 12:00-1:30pm on November 20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
Korea Day conference and activities are sponsored by the UWM School of
Information Studies (SOIS), UWM Libraries, American Geographical
Society
Library, Korean American University Professors Association (KAUPA), Map
Society
of Wisconsin, UWM Center for International Education (CIE), the
Korean-American
Association of Milwaukee, the Korean Language and Culture School of
Milwaukee,
and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Chicago. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Location and
Parking<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
conference will be held at the American Geographical Society (AGS)
Library,
which is located on the 3rd floor of the Golda Meir Library on the UWM
campus.
Parking is available at the Klotsche Center Pavilion garage, which is
located
at 3409 North Downer Avenue, near East Newport Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All
events are free and open to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 11pt;">###<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For
more information: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/AGSL/korean_maps.cfm">http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/AGSL/korean_maps.cfm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Contact:
<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Angie Cope, Senior Academic Librarian, AGS
Library,
UW-Milwaukee<span style=""> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:acope@uwm.edu">acope@uwm.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">(414) 229-6282<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Wooseob Jeong, Associate Professor, School of
Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:wjj8612@uwm.edu">wjj8612@uwm.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">(414) 229-6167<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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