[KS] Museum building

don kirk kirkdon at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 1 00:50:09 EST 2011


Thanks for that clarification. Will see if I can find the building you're 
talking about next time I'm down there.
Don




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From: "Clark, Donald" <dclark at trinity.edu>
To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
Sent: Mon, January 31, 2011 7:29:53 PM
Subject: [KS] Museum building

No, the building I am referring to is absolutely not the Government General 
Building (later the Capitol, later the National Museum).  The Japanese built a 
two story stone building, I think as a museum to hold antiquities related to the 
palace, or more specifically the parts of the palace that the Japanese razed to 
build the Government General Building.   This building was about the size of a 
pretty good mansion, and it stood inside the eastern gate of the  Kyongbok 
Palace. It had a driveway around a grassy circle, in the middle of which stood 
the Kyongch'onsa Pagoda. It was there as recently as the 1970s, at which time 
the buildling served as the early Park-era home of the Bureau of Cultural 
Properties.  

     Like everything else in the area, it was dwarfed by the old Japanese 
capitol.
    Shocked and saddened at Martina's note about the death of JaHyun Kim 
Haboush.

Don

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