[KS] The Corean Repository

[Robert Armstrong]

Greetings all, 

I am hoping that one of you might be able to provide me with some information concerning the Korean Repository series (Vol. I-V, 1892-1898).  In the final volume (December 1898) it clearly states:

"With this number The Repository as a magazine will cease for a year.  We began this work with the conviction that a periodical of this kind was needed in Korea.  This was four years ago when there was no publications of any kind, save a paper issued by the Japanese, in the country.  We made a rule to which we have adhered consientiously that the publication of this monthly should not in any way interfere with the regular work assigned us by the authorities of the church.  We now lay down the pen for a few months in order to carry on some extra work which the absence on furlo of several of the oldest members of the mission of necessity throws upon us."

My question - did the series actually stop?  I have found several references to a Corean Repository being published in 1899 - each issue consisting of four pages.  I know that The Independent (the English-language newspaper in Seoul) ceased, for the most part, publishing at the end of 1898 but Emberely continued to publish the newspaper on and off.  The Independent was a four-page newspaper - is it possible that Emberely changed the name of the paper to the Corean Repository?  If not, does anyone know where any copies of The Independent for 1899 are located?  The New York Public Library only has copies of The Independent that Horace Allen collected.  Allen acknowledges that Emberely continued to print the paper after 1898 but unfortunately did not deem it worthy enough to collect.
 
Thank you very much for any assistance that you might offer.
 
Robert Neff
 
P.S. How can I change my email address on the list?  I would prefer to use my other email account.

 		 	   		  
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