[KS] RE: First E-Mail

[Clark, Donald]

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   
> 
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> 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
> > 


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