[Seoul from a distance]

Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library

 

Title: [Seoul from a distance]

 

Date: ca. 1904

 

Place: Asia: South Korea; Seoul

 

Type: Photographs

 

Description: Lots of Japanese soldiers march into Seoul and some civilians (clad in Japanese kimono) are seen in front of the picture. It depicts a very significant occasion. The building at the background is identified as 'Myongdong Songdang' ( Myongdong Cathedral). The stone cathedral, designed by French priest Jorge Coste in 1892, was built in 1898. Myongdong Cathedral is where Kim Bum-woo, a Chinese interpreter, organized Catholic meetings in the 1780s with Lee Seung-hun, the first Korean baptized Catholic. In the underground section of the church are buried foreign and Korean priests who died in the persecution of Catholics by the Chosun Kingdom during the 1800s. Source for the Cathedral: www.hankooki.com/kt_culture/200206/t2002061516554346110.htm (viewed May 31, 2003)

 

Inscription/Marks: No inscription

 

Identifier: 1260.60.09.35.02

 

Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xmh

 

There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.

 

 

 

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