[KS] RE: First E-Mail

[Kaliher, Kenneth L.]

I want to make sure that John Harvey's point is quite clear -- that the
Bando and Chosun were two different hotels.  While the Chosun was under
reconstruction in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Bando was Seoul's
premier hostelry, dominating City Hall Plaza when there were no higher
buildings in the area.  For many years around then, the two hotel sites were
linked by the "Bando Arcade," a popular shopping venue for foreigners in
search of of Korean ceramics, paintings, artifacts, souvenirs, haberdashery,
etc.  

The legacy of the old Bando lives on in the Lotte Hotel, where the
"Peninsula Coffee Shop" sits, by my recollection, right atop the plot where
the old Bando ("Peninsula") used to stand.  

Ken Kaliher

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Phone:  82-2-793-2612  (Seoul, Korea; within USFK:  723-3631/3192)
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Why is the alphabet in that order??  .....is it because of that song????


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	John H. T. Harvey [mailto:jharvey at nuri.net]
		Sent:	Friday, January 14, 2000 9:57 PM
		To:	korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk; zulauf at erols.com
		Cc:	korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
		Subject:	Re: First E-Mail

		    When I was in Seoul in from 1957 to 1961, the Bando
Hotel was an
		eight-story building where the Lotte Hotel now stands.  (By
that time the
		American Embassy had moved to the four-story building across
the street
		which later housed the USIS.)  While I was back here in late
1969 and early
		1970, the reconstructed Chosun Hotel, the one we know and
love today, was
		opened.  I was one of its first guests.

		    I hope this clears things up a bit.

		John H. T. Harvey
		jharvey at nuri.net

		----- Original Message -----
		From: David A. Mason <mntnwolf at well.com>
		To: <zulauf at erols.com>
		Cc: <korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk>
		Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 8:23 PM
		Subject: Re: First E-Mail


		>
		> > 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
		>


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