<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">By the time I got to Seoul in 1967 Cheongyecheon was a road and I didn't realize it had only recently been covered over. There were still many hovels, folks sleeping under bridges, "illegal" shacks constantly being pulled down by the police, young beggars on the streets who also sold cheap umbrellas whenever it rained for 70/80 weon. There were hapseungs as well as cabs and buses. There were many street hawkers selling such things as adhesive tape and in winter things like hot chestnuts or roasted corn from small braziers. There were still large buildings with bullet scars. But things were changing rapidly. Ed R.<br><br><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dr. Edward D. Rockstein <br></div><div
class="MsoNormal"><br>ed4linda@yahoo.com <br><br>”<font face="Georgia" size="2"><font face="Georgia" size="2"> </font></font><span class="body">Politics is the womb in which war develops.</span><span class="bodybold"></span> <font face="Georgia" size="2"><font face="Georgia" size="2"></font></font>” — Karl von Clausewitz<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 3/5/10, don kirk <i><kirkdon@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: don kirk <kirkdon@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [KS] Photographs of Cheongyecheon in 1965, and other Seoul scenes<br>To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" <koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><br>Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 1:12 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1774317626"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td
style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">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
no</font></div>
<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; 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>
<div><font size="4">but so stark a visual reminder can still make you
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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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