[KS] National Museum of Korea during war

[Daniel Corey Kane]

Hello, 

Frank mentioned publications in Korean by the National Museum of Korea. I would suggest in particular, 

_Kungnip chungang pangmulgwan 60yon, 1945-2005_,  published by the museum in 2006. It has a pretty extensive chapter with photographs of the period 1945-1954.  If your library doesn't have copy try interlibrary loaning it. 

Daniel Kane

----- Original Message -----
From: rmo at mail.utexas.edu
Date: Monday, October 1, 2007 8:24 am
Subject: Re: [KS] National Museum of Korea during war
To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>

> 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.
> >
> > >
> >
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> >
> > >
> >
> > 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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