Dear Dr. Gari, <br><br>Congratulation on the publication of your monumental work, "Cartography in Korea" in Korean.<br><span></span><span></span>The Korean translation must be excellent as it met the approval of someone who "toiled with Korean for 55 years".<br>
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It would be helpful if you provided us with the ISBN Number of the Korean Edition.<br>
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Regards,<br><font color="#888888">
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Kwang-On Yoo
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I'd like to announce on the List that my article "Cartography in<br>
Korea", which appeared in Vol. 2, Book 2 of The History of Cartography<br>
(Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994), has been published in Korean<br>
translation as a book (단행본).<br>
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Under the title <한국 고지도의 역사>, translated by 장상훈, a research official at the Korean National Museum, and published by 출판사 소나무, it came out a<br>
couple of weeks ago and has been commented upon in the newspapers. This year is the 150th anniversary of Kim ChOngho's famous national map, the 대동여지도, so it got a little extra attention. I cooperated with Mr. Jang during the translation process, and I think the result is very good.<br>
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The Korean version is strikingly different from the original Univ. of Chicago publication, which had only six illustrations in color--and even those embarrassingly printed in two separate color sections grouped with maps from Japan and Southeast Asia. The great majority of the original 54 black-and-white illustrations appear in the Korean version in beautiful colors.<br>
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The Korean version presents my entire English text in exactly the same order as I originally arranged it. But it has broken it into five distinct chapters, each decorated with a colorful detail from a Korean map. Some of the chapters are divided into sections. This all makes for a sharper and more orderly presentation. There is a great bibliography and a detailed index.<br>
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All in all, it is a great pleasure to see such a beautiful Korean presentation of my original "article." The price is a very reasonable \35,000.<br><font color="#888888">
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Gari Ledyard<br>
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