<div>In the fifties and sixties, the Gyeongcheonsa (Kyongch'onsa) pagoda stood just inside the then-entrance to the Kyongbok Palace, the east gate, or Konch'un-mun. It stood in a little grassy circle that formed a kind of driveway to the classical-style stone museum building built by the Japanese I think as a museum of the palace, or maybe of the Yi royal dynasty, and later used under the Rhee regime as the office of the Bureau of Cultural Properties. . There's a photo of the pagoda with the Konch'un-mun beyond it, facing page 83 of Seoul Past and Present, by Allen and Donald Clark (RAS 1969). I don't recall the pagoda's travels over time, though I think I could find out where my father got his information when he wrote about it in SP&P. There's a little elaboration in a discussion of both the Kyongch'on-sa and Won'gaksa pagodas on ppl 143 and 144 of the same book, again, written by Allen Clark. </div>
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<div>Don Clark<br><br></div>
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<br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:33:58 +0900 (KST)<br>From: Brother Anthony <<a href="mailto:ansonjae@sogang.ac.kr">ansonjae@sogang.ac.kr</a>><br>To: Korean Studies Discussion List <<a href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</a>><br>
Subject: [KS] The Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:26257837.1296394438812.JavaMail.root@mail.sogang.ac.kr">26257837.1296394438812.JavaMail.root@mail.sogang.ac.kr</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=EUC-KR<br>
<br>I am wondering if anybody can tell me why Japan returned the Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda to Korea in 1918? The explanation supplied in various places by the National Museum of Korea is that it was "returned by the efforts of British and American journalists, E.Bethell and H.Hulbert," but Bethell's articles in the Korea Daily News and Hulbert's article in the Japan Chronicle (that was reproduced in other countries) date from 1907, soon after the theft. Bethell died in 1909, at least partly as a result of his time in prison in Shanghai (a quite scandalous enough story in itself). Hulbert also left Korea at that time and I do not know if he wrote again about the Pagoda? Was there any further campaign? Also, I wonder where it was located prior to the 1976 move to the garden of the National Museum? I am struck that James Gale, writing in 1915 about its younger sister that still stands in Seoul's Tapgol Park, mentions the relocation of the Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda without any sign of indignation and with no hint that it might ever be returned.<br>
<br>Brother Anthony<br>President, RASKB etc<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>End of Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 91, Issue 28<br>*********************************************<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
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