[KS] 500 Won in 1911?

[Michael Robinson]

I remember a series of articles by Kimura (???) from the 1990s where he
worked over food prices and incomes in order to derive a standard of living
measure for the Colonial period.  This was very detailed and careful work
and unfortunately I remember the work and not the locus or author's given
name.  Social/economic historieans help. The work was redolent with price
information.

Mike R
----- Original Message -----
From: "Morgan E. Clippinger" <clippim at megapipe.net>
To: <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [KS] 500 Won in 1911?


> According to one article on the general subject of the Japanese economy,
the
> exchange rate between the US dollar and the yen was $1 = 2 yen around
1911.
> It seems to have been relatively stable from around 1900 to 1920.  So 500
> yen would be $250.  In 1911 $250 was a lot of money, so now all you have
to
> do is find out what $250 in 1911 equals in 2003.  But how much buying
power
> would that be in Korea in 1911?  I take it that the 500 yen fine was the
> maximum.  Do you know what the minimum fine was?
>
> An interesting article on the subject, and probably more than you want to
> know, is:   PDF]Japan's Economy in the Twentieth Century.  File Format:
> PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
> www.jei.org/AJAclass/JEcon20thC.pdf -
>
> morgan clippinger
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eamon Adams" <eamon_ad at hotmail.com>
> To: <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:07 AM
> Subject: [KS] 500 Won in 1911?
>
>
> > Dear List Members,
> >                   I was wondering if anyone might be able to shed a
little
> > light upon a question of 'money'? Looking through the Temple Regulations
> of
> > 1911 instituted by the Japanese Governor general's office article 6
speaks
> > of a fine of up to 500 Won for a failure to keep the regulations. My
> > question, in today's currency what might the relative value of 500 Won
be?
> > Just trying to get a feeling for the level of punishment being dished
out
> to
> > the poor old monk.
> >
> >                         Regards,
> >                                 Eamon Adams
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