[KS] Koreans scoring points

[in cho]

1)  When was the statue of Yi Sunsin in Sejongro erected:

Based on quick web search, I found:

It was commissioned to a famous sculpture Kim Saejung(1928-1986), former
professor of Seoul National University and director of National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Korea in 1966 and erected in 1968.


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----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Pratt <keith.pratt at durham.ac.uk>
Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2004 7:16 am
Subject: [KS] Koreans scoring points

> Dear List,
> 
> Please can anybody answer the two following questions for me. They are
> both so factual that I should be able to find the answers for myself, but
> (like arguments about the fall of Singapore) whoever I ask seems to come
> up with a different answer:
> (1)  When was the statue of Yi Sunsin in Sejongro erected, and was there
> any suggestion of contemporary anti-Japanese feeling in the accompanying
> speeches?
> (2)  I have heard that the first Seoul subway line was
> dug/built by a Japanese company, but that when it was officially opened in
> 1973 (?) the ceremony was arranged for August 15th, Liberation Day, as a
> means of saving a bit of Korean face. Is this actually so?
> 
> Thanks for any advice,
> 
> Keith Pratt
> 
>