[KS] Travelogue: Book on Seoul and First Movie ever Filmed and Played in Korea by E. Burton Holmes, 1901
Frank Hoffmann
hoffmann at koreaweb.ws
Sun Feb 26 20:45:44 EST 2012
Yes, you are absolutely right ... I followed the memories of Holmes'
cameraman Oscar B. Depue in his 1947 article (which seemingly do
clash with Holmes' earlier description, as I see now):
QUOTE Depue -- see the 1947 original text here:
http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofsociety49socirich#page/486/mode/2up
(p. 486):
"We were twenty-eight days on this river trip [Shilka and Amur
rivers], but finally we landed at Khabarovsk and proceeded by rail to
Vladivostok. As soon as passage could be secured, we took a steamer
to Nagasaki and from thence to Korea where we visited Fusan and
Seoul, the capital. / From Seoul we went to Peking (...)."
In the beginning of his travelogue, vol. 10, Burton Holmes also talks
about the passage from Nagasaki to Korea (to Fusan [Pusan]) and how
convenient that was for Japanese traders etc., but then indeed writes
that is not what they did in 1901. (Again thanks to Kwang-On Yoo for
pointing that out.)
In the preceding volume, vol. 9, Holmes describes the Siberia and the
Peking trip. Pages 101-103 have some interesting photos showing
Korean travelers (a yangban with servant) at a Siberian train
station, nicely demonstrating (a) how Koreans had settled in the
Russian Far East at that time already, and also (b) how much
traveling and communication must have gone on, at all periods
actually. When we look at all those early Western travelogues we
often tend to forget that Koreans themselves have traveled very
extensively very early on, at least throughout Manchuria, China, and
India, and by 1900 also through Siberia, Russia...
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http://www.archive.org/stream/downamurpekingfo00holmuoft#page/100/mode/2up
http://www.archive.org/stream/downamurpekingfo00holmuoft#page/102/mode/2up
http://www.archive.org/stream/downamurpekingfo00holmuoft#page/105/mode/2up
Best,
Frank
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