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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 13, 2020, at 11:16 PM, Frank Hoffmann <<a href="mailto:hoffmann@koreanstudies.com" class="">hoffmann@koreanstudies.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Just to say thanks for the insights, Brother Anthony.<br class="">Quite interesting! The harsh discrepancy between the propagated <br class="">emphasis on traditional culture, especially court culture, and the fast <br class="">and rigorous disassembling of anything left of traditional Korean <br class="">culture (e.g. having turning Seoul into what looks like some Amazon <br class="">warehouse space) was long something very visible to many. The <br class="">disinterest in preservation as such, on the other hand, is something <br class="">that only shows when put in international perspective. Over the years I <br class="">have not seen much of an awareness on this issue in Korea. My immediate <br class="">add-on question after reading your note below is: is this the result of <br class="">rapid modernization under mostly authoritarian rule and the creation of <br class="">a system of value priorities that characterize the inner workings of <br class="">such a system itself, or does it have much older roots that are <br class="">possibly explained by Korea having been a mostly agrarian, rural <br class="">society? <br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">Frank<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:40:49 +0900 (KST), Brother Anthony wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Part of the problem is the size of the collection, which TB wishes to <br class="">sell complete. This takes us into the several millions of dollars <br class="">which is hardly feasible in today's world. As for his collection <br class="">related to Indochina, which is so much larger and much more complex, <br class="">from what I hear, one dares not even think of what a possible price <br class="">might be or who might pay it. For Korea, part of the difficulty is <br class="">the amost complete lack of national awareness or interest when it <br class="">comes to archiving materials of any kind, anywhere. I have not heard <br class="">that there is a Korean National Archive which would be the obvious <br class="">place for such a collection. I was quite surprised when recently the <br class="">pack of 94 photographic negatives by (?) Carlo Rossetti found a buyer <br class="">in Korea (I do not know who) at a high price at K Auction after <br class="">failing to find a buyer ar auctions in Europe, etc. If TB wishes to <br class="">sell, he would be well advised to take the same route (auction in <br class="">Korea, probably preceded by an exhibition) but I doubt if he could <br class="">sell the complete collection as such. It is bound to have materials <br class="">with varying levels of rarity / interest / value. There are other <br class="">considerable collections of archival material related to Korea I know <br class="">of that face the same problem, for even should someone wish to make a <br class="">donation, I do not really see any institution in Korea qualified and <br class="">adapted to receive fragile materials such as photos, maps, account <br class="">books, personal letters, transcribed interviews, diaries . . . . with <br class="">no immediate purpose other than long-term preservation. <br class=""><br class="">The other side of the coin is the considerable amount of older <br class="">printed material held in certain university libraries in Seoul to <br class="">which absolutely noobody seems able to gain access. It is only quite <br class="">recently that Korean academics seem to have realized the interest of <br class="">the older photographic record. The use made by Korean scholars from <br class="">Sungyungwan of the photographic materials in the Griffis archive at <br class="">Rutgers in preparing last year's massive volume 'Photographs of Korea <br class="">in the William Elliot Griffis Collection' marks a new departure.<br class=""><br class="">Brother Anthony<br class="">President, RAS Korea<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________<br class="">Frank Hoffmann<br class=""><a href="http://koreanstudies.com" class="">http://koreanstudies.com</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>