[KS] National Museum of Korea during war

rmo at mail.utexas.edu rmo at mail.utexas.edu
Mon Oct 1 12:18:45 EDT 2007


Hi Hans and all,

On the evacuation of materials from the museum during the war, along with
writings by or about Knez (and Knez's papers in DC), Kim Chewon (the then
museum director) also discusses the incident in one or another of his
biographies.

Rob Oppenheim
University of Texas at Austin

Quoting PEB <peb at ircltd.com>:

> TO: Hans Kim
>
> >
>
> Further to your question about how Korean arts currently displayed at the
> National Museum of Korea were preserved during the Korean war, please note
> the following.
>
> >
>
> Much of the current collection now on display was not yet present in the
> Museum in 1950. Much of today¡¯s large collection was assembled during the
> last 35 years. In 1945 the largest museum in Seoul in 1945 was the
> Á¶¼±Ãѵ¶ºÎ ¹Ú¹°°ü which served as the foundation for the National Museum of
> Korea. During the Korean War the museum¡¯s personnel packaged up the
> collection for safe-keeping to prevent it being looted and transported to
> North Korea. (See citation below.)
>
> >
>
> You first need to read the history of how the National Museum of Korea
> started and how the collection was put together during the early years. May
> I suggest that you use ¡°Google Korea¡± and enter ¡°Áß¾Ó±¹¸³¹Ú¹°°üÀÇ¿ª»ç¡±
> to find the basic facts of the museum during the period of 1945 - 1950 and
> the war years of 1950-1953. --- Two sites giving initial basic information
> are: http://www.koreandb.net/dictionaries/Viewframe.aspx?id=5024
> <http://www.koreandb.net/dictionaries/Viewframe.aspx?id=5024&ser=2> &ser=2 -
> -- and http://www.donga.com/fbin/output?f=jvs
> <http://www.donga.com/fbin/output?f=jvs&code=jv_&n=200510260132>
> &code=jv_&n=200510260132 -- In the latter site (donga.com) note the
> following description of the protection of the museum¡¯s cultural treasures
> by museum personnel to protect them from looting by the North Korean
> military.
>
> >
>
> ¡°¡¦.6¡¤25ÀüÀï ¶§ ±¹¸³¹Ú¹°°üÀÇ ¹®È­À縦 ºÏÇÑ¿¡ ¸ù¶¥ ³»ÁÙ »·Çß´Ù. ¼­¿ïÀ»
> Á¡·ÉÇÑ ºÏÇÑÀº ´õ±Û·¯½º ¸Æ¾Æ´õ À屺ÀÇ ÀÎõ»ó·úÀÛÀüÀ¸·Î ¼­¿ï¿¡¼­ ¹Ð·Á³ª°Ô
> µÇÀÚ ±¹¸³¹Ú¹°°üÀÇ À¯¹°À» ºÏÀ¸·Î °¡Á®°¡·Á Çß´Ù. ±¹¸³¹Ú¹°°ü Á÷¿øµéÀº
> ¡®Áö¿¬ÀÛÀü¡¯À» ¹ú¿´´Ù. ¹®È­À縦 ÃÖ´ëÇÑ ÃµÃµÈ÷ Æ÷ÀåÇÏ°í ¡®Å©±â¿Í ³»¿ëÀ»
> ±â·ÏÇÏ´Â ÀÏÀ» ºü¶ß·È´Ù¡¯¸ç Æ÷ÀåÀ» ´Ù½Ã Ǫ´Â ½ÄÀ¸·Î ½Ã°£À» ²ö °ÍÀÌ´Ù.
> ºÏÇѱºÀº ½Ã°£¿¡ ÂѱâÀÚ ¹®È­Àç ¹ÝÃâÀ» Æ÷±âÇÏ°í µµ¸ÁÃÆ´Ù.¡±
>
> >
>
> There are many more sites that come up on the Google Korea search engine
> giving information that could be useful to you on this subject.
>
> >
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Peter Bartholomew
>
> Royal Asiatic Society-Korea Branch
>
> peb at ircltd.com
>
>





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