[KS] The History of Korean Cartography

[gkl1 at columbia.edu]

I'd like to announce on the List that my article "Cartography in
Korea", which appeared in Vol. 2, Book 2 of The History of Cartography
(Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994), has been published in Korean
translation as a book (단행본).

Under the title <한국 고지도의 역사>, translated by 장상훈, a research official  
at the Korean National Museum, and published by 출판사 소나무, it came out a
couple of weeks ago and has been commented upon in the newspapers.  
This year is the 150th anniversary of Kim ChOngho's famous national  
map, the 대동여지도, so it got a little extra attention. I cooperated with  
Mr. Jang during the translation process, and I think the result is  
very good.


The Korean version is strikingly different from the original Univ. of  
Chicago publication, which had only six illustrations in color--and  
even those embarrassingly printed in two separate color sections  
grouped with maps from Japan and Southeast Asia. The great majority of  
the original 54 black-and-white illustrations appear in the Korean  
version in beautiful colors.

The Korean version presents my entire English text in exactly the same  
order as I originally arranged it. But it has broken it into five  
distinct chapters, each decorated with a colorful detail from a Korean  
map. Some of the chapters are divided into sections. This all makes  
for a sharper and more orderly presentation. There is a great  
bibliography and a detailed index.

All in all, it is a great pleasure to see such a beautiful Korean  
presentation of my original "article." The price is a very reasonable  
\35,000.

Gari Ledyard