<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks for these -- really interesting. Hard to believe Cheongyecheon was like that. Looks like sights I've seen in Manila.<br>Best,<br>Don<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 3/5/10, Afostercarter@aol.com <i><Afostercarter@aol.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Afostercarter@aol.com <Afostercarter@aol.com><br>Subject: [KS] Photographs of Cheongyecheon in 1965, and other Seoul scenes<br>To: Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<br>Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 7:57 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1512806120">
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<div><font size="4">Dear friends and colleagues,</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Sorry if this is old hat. But some
remarkable </font><font size="4">photographs </font><font size="4">of
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<div><font size="4">an impoverished Cheongyecheon in 1965 - and a </font><font size="4">wealth of</font></div>
<div><font size="4">other images of Seoul </font><font size="4">i</font><font size="4">n the 1950s-70s - </font><font size="4">can be found here:</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Many thanks </font><font size="4">to Tom Coyner and Alan
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<div><font size="4">Already by 1982, when I first visited, there were
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<div><font size="4">scenes remotely resembling this. The
extraordinary</font></div>
<div><font size="4">pace of change in modern South Korea may be a clich<span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: small; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); word-spacing: 0px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font face="Book Antiqua" size="4">é</font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>,</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Belated Samil greetings to one and all,</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Aidan</font></div>
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