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| (street) map of Keijo [message #8503] |
Thu, 06 April 2006 07:04  |
Cwiertka, K.J.
Messages: 15
Registered: April 2004
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Dear Colleagues,
Here comes another practical question from me (I promise to come up with
something more conceptual once I get all my facts right...).
Do you know where I can find a detailed map of Keijo in the 1930s?
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
Katarzyna
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, PhD
Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-(0)71-5272599
Fax: +31-(0)71-5272215
http://www.koreaans.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=13&c=42
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| Re: (street) map of Keijo [message #8506 is a reply to message #8503] |
Thu, 06 April 2006 14:42  |
Todd Henry
Messages: 15
Registered: December 2003
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Based on a couple years of searching, I have found that maps of Keijo
(colonial Seoul) are scattered throughout a number of libraries in Japan,
South Korea, and the US (elsewhere, I presume, as well). My personal
collection has benefitted most from the map library at Berkeley as well as
the holdings at the Insititute for Seoul Studies (Soulhak yonguso) at the
City University of Seoul. There are also serveral books containing
collections of maps [i.e., Soul ui yechido (Old maps of Seoul), published by
the Institute of Seoul Studies), although many of them date from the
pre-colonial period. I hope this helps.
Todd Henry
UCLA
>From: "Cwiertka, K.J."
>Reply-To: Korean Studies Discussion List
>To: "Korean Studies Discussion List"
>Subject: [KS] (street) map of Keijo
>Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 13:04:39 +0200
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>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Here comes another practical question from me (I promise to come up with
>something more conceptual once I get all my facts right...).
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>Do you know where I can find a detailed map of Keijo in the 1930s?
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>Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
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>Katarzyna
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>Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, PhD
>Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies
>Leiden University
>P.O. Box 9515
>2300 RA Leiden
>The Netherlands
>Tel.: +31-(0)71-5272599
>Fax: +31-(0)71-5272215
>http://www.koreaans.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=13&c=42
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| Re: (street) map of Keijo [message #8507 is a reply to message #8503] |
Thu, 06 April 2006 22:17 |
Stefan Ewing
Messages: 77
Registered: May 2005
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Dear Dr. Cwiertka:
This, fortunately, is an easy question to answer! The University of Texas's
Perry-Castaneda Map Collection includes a copy of a highly detailed map of
Seoul from 1946, published by the U.S. Army Map Service. Although the
map--entitled "Kyongsong or Seoul (Keijo)"--was published in the 1940s, much
of the data used dates back to 1929 and 1937 (detailed information on
sources is given in the upper left-hand part of the map), and thus should
give a reasonably reliable snapshot of how the city looked in at least the
late 1930s.
The map includes the city and the surrounding countryside (now all part of
the city, of course!), as far north as Hyehwa-dong (along Daehangno), east
to roughly Wangsimni, south to Noryangjin, and west to Yeoui-do. Contours,
vegetation, marshland, built-up areas, villages, names and outlines of major
buildings (palaces, government offices, hospitals, schools, universities),
streetcar lines, railway tracks, streets, lanes, alleys, streams, parks,
city and palace walls and gates, even the Changgyeong zoo--all in glorious
colour--you name it, it's there. Please forgive me for the hyperbole, but
this map provides and unbelievable wealth of historical information.
As an added bonus, virtually all place names are given in both romanized
Korean (complete with diacritics) _and_ romanized Japanese--thus enabling
correlation of colonial-era and modern-day place names--with a fair bit of
English thrown in. The only drawbacks are the absence of Han'gu^l and
Hancha (see the end of this message for more), and the omission of street
names--but a quick check against any modern-day map will fill in the gaps.
The city had not yet been reorganized into _gu_ and _dong_, but the name of
many _jeongs_ ("-jo^ng" on the map; Japanese "-machi") are the same as the
_dongs_ that replaced them.
The map is available online at the University of Texas Perry-Castaneda
Library Map Collection's website, on its Korea page
(http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/korea.html), in the last entry of the
section "Historical Maps." The entire map may be accessed here:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/seoul_city_plans_1 946.jpg
but note that at 7.6 MB, it's a very big file and may take a while to finish
opening. (An option would be to save a copy of the file to your local
computer, rather than open it directly in your web browser). Smaller
excerpts from the map may be accessed via the first link
(http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/korea.html).
Finally, for a quick overview of a few contemporary street, neighbourhood,
and landmark names in Korean script compare the names of streetcar stops in
these two streetcar line maps:
http://www.seoul.go.kr/life/life/culture/history_book/pictur e_seoul2/7/1203339_3020.html
(first image; Han'gu^l; circa 1939) and
http://seoul600.visitseoul.net/seoul-history/sidaesa/image/p hotos/4-12g.jpg
(Hancha; circa 1946). (Note that the 1939 map is a computer-drawn replica
of a map probably originally printed in Hancha, and that a few of the stop
names are likely anachronistic.)
Yours,
Stefan Ewing
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>From: "Cwiertka, K.J."
>Reply-To: Korean Studies Discussion List
>To: "Korean Studies Discussion List"
>Subject: [KS] (street) map of Keijo
>Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 13:04:39 +0200
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Here comes another practical question from me (I promise to come up with
>something more conceptual once I get all my facts right...).
>
>
>
>Do you know where I can find a detailed map of Keijo in the 1930s?
>
>Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>Katarzyna
>
>
>
>Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, PhD
>Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies
>Leiden University
>P.O. Box 9515
>2300 RA Leiden
>The Netherlands
>Tel.: +31-(0)71-5272599
>Fax: +31-(0)71-5272215
>http://www.koreaans.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=13&c=42
>
>
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| Re: (street) map of Keijo [message #8514 is a reply to message #8503] |
Mon, 10 April 2006 03:42 |
Cwiertka, K.J.
Messages: 15
Registered: April 2004
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Dear all,
Thank you so much for the shower of suggestions on where to find a good
map of Keijo. Your generous advice has far surpassed my expectations.
Many thanks!
Katarzyna
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, PhD
Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-(0)71-5272599
Fax: +31-(0)71-5272215
http://www.koreaans.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=13&c=42
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