[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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