[KS] Great Chosŏn Ramie Spinning, Ltd. (大朝鮮 苧麻 製絲 會社)

Barbara Wall superrhabarber at hotmail.com
Fri May 11 07:06:30 EDT 2012


By chance I found the following link according to which 타운션 (Walter Davis Townsend?) and 데슬나 seem to be two people. 
http://contents.booktopia.com/book_down/bookImg/Preview/0304/x/03042484/03042484.xml

Good luck!

Barbara Wall
PhD Candidate Ruhr-University Bochum
 

> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:54:01 -0400
> From: epa at sas.upenn.edu
> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> Subject: [KS] Great Chosŏn Ramie Spinning, Ltd. (大朝鮮 苧麻 製絲 會社)
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to identify two 
> Westerners mentioned in June 12, 
> 1897 issue of /The Independent/ (독 
> 립신문) as follows:
> 
>      타운션 데슬나(American)
>      존슨(British)
> 
> Reporting on the founding of Great 
> Chosŏn Ramie Spinning Company (大朝 
> 鮮 苧麻 製絲會社), Korea's arguably 
> first joint stock venture, the 
> article mentions the two as '쥬무관 
> '(=주무관, "main duty officers"). I 
> would at least like to know their 
> full names in English. For your 
> information, other individuals 
> mentioned in the article are (I am 
> using contemporary Korean orthography):
> 
>      안경수    회장, 주무관
>      이채연    부회장
>      이근배    장무관, 주무관
>      윤규섭    장무관
>      방한덕    서기관
>      윤효정    서기관
>      우항선    서기관
>      Philip Jaisohn    주무관
> 
> Since all of the above are well 
> known individuals to anyone studying 
> political history of the period, I 
> would like to think that both 타운션 
> 데슬나 and 존슨 too are traceable.
> 
> Thank you, in advance, for your help!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Gene
> 
> -- 
> Eugene Y. Park
> Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History
> Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies
> University of Pennsylvania
> 
 		 	   		  
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