[KS] An old book about Korea

Mark Arlen Peterson map3 at email.byu.edu
Thu Jul 29 22:20:44 EDT 2004


I just looked up the bib cite and here it is:

Cornelius Osgood, The Koreans and Their Culture (New York: Ronald Press, 1951);

Published in 1951, so the research was post liberation, but pre-Korean War.

best,
Mark



> Many years ago, before arriving here, I read a book about Korea (in English) 
published early in the 20th
> century that was mainly about life in Kanghwa Island and I wonder if anyone 
recognizes it and is able to
> indicate the title and author? It was very precise in its evocations of daily life, the 
traces of the
> French and American attacks still visible, and it included several plates. I would very 
much like to read
> it again. Even a photocopy...
> 
> Brother Anthony
> Sogang University, Seoul, Korea





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