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Photos of old Korea
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The first western hotel in KoreaThe Chosun Hotel, built in 1914. President Herbert Hoover stayed her when he visited Korea in 1915.
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Seoul 1890s |
Seoul 1891 |
couple playing baeduk |
Fighting in Seoul Korean war |
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comfort women |
Korean women wearing kot covering
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traditional dress 1890s |
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Fusan ( Pusan) 1890s |
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official 1890s |
kat (horsehair hat) market
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Department store in the 1930s |
Japanese occupation |
kisaeng girls |
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sedan chair |
Japanese troops landing at Inchon, 1904 Japanese civilians on left |
village 1906 |
official on a one wheeled cart
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school 1880s |
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Kum river, Puyo capital |
New Years' see saw game |
Seoul train station opened in 1900 |
Imperial Chinese soldiers 1894 |
1st streetcar in Korea Seoul 1890s
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Tae an gate Seoul Queen Min funeral |
west gate 1904 Japanese soldiers |
Yangban The educated scholarly class |
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1960s Seoul
Custom House Pusan 1930s
streetcar in Seoul, early 1900s
Marilyn Monroe in Korea in 1954, she had been in Japan, on a honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio
Chinese army entering Taejon
The bustling street of Honmachi, Keijo (Seoul)
Na Woon-gyu in the 1926 silent movie Punguna (풍운아 - Soldier of Fortune). Considered the most important filmmaker in early Korean cinema, and possibly Korea's first true movie star.
Keijo in the 1930s, The Bank of Korea is on the left and a large sign in Japanese for 'Lait Cream'.' Photo probably taken from the Mitsukoshi department store.
