[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 91, Issue 28

Clark, Donald dclark at trinity.edu
Sun Jan 30 17:13:27 EST 2011


In the fifties and sixties, the Gyeongcheonsa (Kyongch'onsa) pagoda stood
just inside the then-entrance to the Kyongbok Palace, the east gate, or
Konch'un-mun. It stood in a little grassy circle that formed a kind of
driveway to the classical-style stone museum building built by the Japanese
I think as a museum of the palace, or maybe of the Yi royal dynasty, and
later used under the Rhee regime as the office of the Bureau of Cultural
Properties. .  There's a photo of the pagoda with the Konch'un-mun beyond
it, facing page 83 of Seoul Past and Present, by Allen and Donald Clark
(RAS 1969).    I don't recall the pagoda's travels over time, though I think
I could find out where my father got his information when he wrote about it
in SP&P.  There's a little elaboration in a discussion of both the
Kyongch'on-sa and Won'gaksa pagodas on ppl 143 and 144 of the same book,
again, written by Allen Clark.
Best regards,
Don Clark

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> I am wondering if anybody can tell me why Japan returned the Gyeongcheonsa
> Pagoda to Korea in 1918? The explanation supplied in various places by the
> National Museum of Korea is that it was "returned by the efforts of British
> and American journalists, E.Bethell and H.Hulbert," but Bethell's articles
> in the Korea Daily News and Hulbert's article in the Japan Chronicle (that
> was reproduced in other countries) date from 1907, soon after the theft.
> Bethell died in 1909, at least partly as a result of his time in prison in
> Shanghai (a quite scandalous enough story in itself). Hulbert also left
> Korea at that time and I do not know if he wrote again about the Pagoda? Was
> there any further campaign? Also, I wonder where it was located prior to the
> 1976 move to the garden of the National Museum? I am struck that James Gale,
> writing in 1915 about its younger sister that still stands in Seoul's Tapgol
> Park, mentions the relocation of the Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda without any sign
> of indignation and with no hint that it might ever be returned.
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> Brother Anthony
> President, RASKB etc
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-- 
Donald N. Clark, Ph.D.
Professor of History
     & Co-director of East Asian Studies at Trinity (EAST)
Trinity University, One Trinity Place,  San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
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