[KS] RE: First E-Mail

[Yong-ho Choe]

Also, the first Korean Communist Party was organized on April 17, 1925 at about the present entrance to the garage of Lotte Hotel, where the famous Chinese restaurant, AsOwOn (not a part of Bando Hotel), was located.


At 09:10 AM 1/17/2000 -1000, SJF or Dr BAZ wrote:
>Thank you, I did not know the builders, other than it was done for the 
>Japanese occupation.  The Bando was build semi-fortified, with a 
>semi-surrounding moat. Steel shuttered and gated entryways, steel shuttered 
>strong points at all access from the first floor, and heavier than normal 
>construction throughout.  The building even took direct hits from heavy 
>aviation during the war and survived with what is called "moderate" damage. 
> Most of the building was still serviceable, but the U.S. officials chose 
>to move when presented with a chance at a modernized facility nearby.
>
>Barry Zulauf
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Clark, Donald [SMTP:dclark at trinity.edu]
>Sent:	Monday, January 17, 2000 11:18 AM
>To:	'korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk'
>Subject:	RE: First E-Mail
>
>And just to add to the fun, I'll chime in that the Bando was built by
>Noguchi Jun the chemical tycoon.  The building across the street from the
>Bando that was used by the U.S. Embassy as its chancery from the early
>fifties until the late sixties and thereafter as the USIS building, was
>originally the Mitsui Building, built in 1937.
>Don Clark
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Karl Moskowitz/KSA [SMTP:ksasel at soback.kornet.nm.kr]
>> Sent:	Sunday, January 16, 2000 2:08 AM
>> To:	korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
>> Cc:	zulauf at erols.com
>> Subject:	Re:  First E-Mail
>>
>>
>> Clarification:
>>
>> The Lotte Hotel sits on the site of the old Bando
>>
>> The Westin Chosun sits on the site of the former Chosun Hotel
>>
>> Karl Moskowitz
>>
>> KSA Ltd
>> 27 F, Korea World Trade Ctr
>> 159 Samsung-Dong
>> Kangnam-Ku
>> Seoul  135-729
>>
>> tel (02) 551-2723  fax (02) 551-2710
>>
>> information: http://world.std.com/~ksabos
>>
>> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, David A. Mason wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > > housed in the Banto [Peninsula] Hotel.
>> >
>> > That would be the Bando Hotel, actually the "Choson Bando Hotel",
>> > a.k.a. the Choson Hotel, now reconstructed as the Westin Choson
>> > Hotel near the City Hall Plaza.
>> >
>> > One photo of it's pre-reconstruction appearance (probably taken in the
>> > 1970's, is found on page 103 of _Korea's Colorful Heritage_ by Dr. Jon
>> > Carter Covell, published in 1985 by Si-sa-yong-o-sa of Seoul.  ISBN #
>> > 0-87296-020-X.   Further info on the hotel on pages 98 & 102.
>> > That's all I know...
>> >
>> > David Mason
>> > Wonju City,  Korea
>> >
>
>
Yong-ho Choe, Professor
Department of History
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI  96822

Tel: 808 956-6762
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