[KS] Re: First E-Mail

[John H. T. Harvey]

    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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