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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.
Seoul 1890s
Seoul 1891
couple playing baeduk
Fighting in Seoul Korean war
comfort women
Korean women wearing kot covering
traditional dress 1890s
Fusan ( Pusan) 1890s
official 1890s
kat (horsehair hat) market
Department store in the 1930s
Keijo (京城 Seoul ) Japanese occupation
kisaeng girls
sedan chair
Japanese troops landing at Inchon, 1904 Japanese civilians on left
village 1906
official on a one wheeled cart
school 1880s
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
Tae an gate Seoul Queen Min funeral
West Gate 1904 Japanese soldiers
Yangban The educated scholarly class
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.
weddings procession 1900s
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