[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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