[KS] Museum building

[Clark, Donald]

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

-- 
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
+1 (210) 999-7629;  Fax +1 (210) 999-8334
http://www.trinity.edu/departments/history/html/faculty/donald_clark.htm
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