[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 51, Issue 13

Wed Sep 19 12:28:23 EDT 2007

Dear Brother Anthony,
     I'm sure that it was the Kyonghui Palace based on my father Allen
Clark's recollections of Seoul when he was growing up there in the early
part of the century and the foreign residents used to call it the
Mulberry Palace--or the site of the Mulberry Palace, because the
Japanese were in the process of dismantling it.  Horace Allen also
refers to it that way in Korea Fact and Fancy. Just adding my two cents
worth,
Don Clark

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: The Mulberry Palace (Seang Ill Bae)
   2. FW: The Mulberry Palace (Stefan Ewing)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:14:57 -0400
From: "Seang Ill Bae" <PBae at uamail.albany.edu>
Subject: Re: [KS] The Mulberry Palace
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Dear Brother Anthony

Search through the "Google Book Search" shows an entry from "Korea: A
Historical and Cultural Dictionary."(Pratt, Keith L., and Richard Rutt,
Routledge, 1999.). According to the Dictionary, the "Mulberry Palace" is
'Kyonghui Gung'. The entry shows the origin of the name as well. See
below URL
http://books.google.com/books?id=e7pyBEWioLsC&pg=PA297&dq=Mulberry+Palac
e%22&sig=XqMiGJVoXdhrLt7b1tgTDs9HxEw

Same thing is also said in the Transactions of the Korea Branch of the
Royal Asiatic Society. (1951)
http://books.google.com/books?id=BG0cAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Mulberry+Palace%22&dq
=%22Mulberry+Palace%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1

However, "History of Korea." by Homer Bezaleel Hulbert,(Routledge, 1999)
said  the Mulberry Palace is "In Gyung Palace". See below URL 
http://books.google.com/books?id=gGA5difAm50C&pg=PA61&dq=Mulberry+Palace
&sig=fzSRiJrRE_oNZjSBjV6XGv3t-xU

Try "Google Book search" (http://books.google.com/) and you will see
some other sources which describe the location and history of the
""Mulberry Palace" as well.  Hope this will help.

Best Wishes,

Seangill (Peter ) Bae
Collections manager/Document delivery specialist 
for History and Korean Studies 
UL-108, University Library, University at Albany 
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany NY, 12222
518-442-3617 

Peter Bae
Collections manager/Document delivery specialist
for History and Korean Studies, UAlbany SUNY
518-442-3617 
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[mailto:koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws] On Behalf Of Brother Anthony
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 5:56 PM
To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
Subject: [KS] The Mulberry Palace

I have been asked to identify the particular poyal palace in Seoul that
westerners used, in the late 19th century, to call the "Mulberry Palace"
and I do not know. Google can only confirm that the term exists in 3-4
hits, including a photo, but I see no entry?that includes the
Korean?name. Something makes me want to say it was Yeonhui Palace, but I
am sure someone out there knows for sure. Help, please.

Brother Anthony
Sogang University, Seoul

http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/ 

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:05:26 -0700
From: Stefan Ewing <sa_ewing at hotmail.com>
Subject: [KS] FW: The Mulberry Palace
To: <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
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Dear Brother Anthony: According to the article "Mulberry Palace" on page
297 of Keith L. Pratt's and Richard Rutt's _Korea: A Historical and
Cultural Dictionary_ (Routledge, 1999; available online via Google Books
at
http://books.google.com/books?id=vj8ShHzUxrYC&pg=PA297&lpg=PA297&dq=%22m
ulberry+palace%22&source=web&ots=4wIPMEhFgZ&sig=OY5APxr-i510EJLAM2iHNOGn
yG8), the Mulberry Palace is a westerners' nickname for Gyeonghui-gung,
the former (and partially restored) east-facing palace marked by
Heunghwamun, at the bend of the road in Sinmun-no between Jongno Negeori
and the site of the dismantled Seodaemun (the latter being marked by a
plaque on a high point along the northwest side of the road west of the
palace site).  The city wall--which currently starts just north of the
Sajik Tunnel--appears to have formed the southwestern boundary of the
palace. According to the aforementioned article, the nickname arose
"after [an] A. Maertens planted mulberry trees in the compound as part
of a sericulture venture that failed.  The trees were still there in
1895, but their subsequent fate is unrecorded."  The palace had been
more or less completely dismantled by 1922, but restoration began in the
1986, in concert with the construction of the Seoul Museum of History
(Seoul Yeoksa Bangmulgwan) on the site. For more background (in Korean),
see the museum's page on the palace's history at
http://www.museum.seoul.kr/kor/gyeung/1173417_698.jsp . Yours,Stefan
Ewing --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: ansonjae at sogang.ac.krTo:
koreanstudies at koreaweb.wsDate: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:56:24 +0900Subject:
[KS] The Mulberry Palace

I have been asked to identify the particular poyal palace in Seoul that
westerners used, in the late 19th century, to call the "Mulberry Palace"
and I do not know. Google can only confirm that the term exists in 3-4
hits, including a photo, but I see no entry that includes the Korean
name. Something makes me want to say it was Yeonhui Palace, but I am
sure someone out there knows for sure. Help, please.Brother
AnthonySogang University, Seoulhttp://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/

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