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Updated: June 20, 2025
A funeral is in all countries, to me, a curious sight, but in Seoul, a performance of this description is probably more curious than elsewhere, and that, because, to a European eye, it appears to be anything but a funeral.
Then the army cut down the rate of pay for coolies, and, from being overpaid, the native labourers were forced to toil for half their ordinary earnings. The military, too, gradually began to acquire a more domineering air. In Seoul itself a definite line of policy was being pursued. The Korean Government had employed a number of foreign advisers.
The robe falls apart in front and shows loose trousers. The dancing-girl and the singing-girl correspond to the geisha and Maiko of Japan. Sight-seeing in Seoul is less exhausting than in other cities, as there are no galleries, museums, or elaborate tombs to be described. The interest in the city is found amongst its street scenes and in the peculiar life of its people.
But let this suffice for the good and bad qualities of the Cho-sen fairies and their funny way of being married. Painting in Seoul Messages from the king Royal princes sitting for their portraits Breaking the mourning law Quaint notions Delight and despair Calling in of State ceremony Corean soldiers How they mount guard Drill Honours A much admired shoe A gift.
"We had nightmare all night long, because of that picture," they told me. In Seoul, when the thirty-three leaders were arrested, a demonstration was held in the Park and the Declaration read there.
His very first contact with practical politics gave him a peculiar manner of viewing political problems. The arrival of Chinese troops in Seoul marked the beginning of that acute rivalry with Japan which finally culminated in the short and disastrous war of 1894-95.
He then went to America, graduated at the George Washington University, took M.A. at Harvard, and earned his Ph.D. at Princeton. He returned to Seoul as an official of the Y.M.C.A., but finding it impossible to settle down under the Japanese régime, went to Honolulu, where he became principal of the Korean School. A few years later he was chosen first President of the Republic of Korea.
Still more recently I had noted the action of the Japanese soldiers when repressing the uprising in Seoul itself. Yet, whether the stories of the refugees were true or false, undeniably some interesting fighting was going on. By the first week in September it was clear that the area of trouble covered the eastern provinces from near Fusan to the north of Seoul.
His impetus to go to Seoul this week had come from a dominant feeling of disconnection experienced by one who knew the extreme violence of the world, who knew the madness of hope for anyone, and felt being buried alive in that one perspective that the world was an evil place-a perspective that was not ethereal but solid as a coffin even if it did spill over into other things.
The word "Corea" evidently is nothing but a corruption of the dead and buried word "Korai." The road to Seoul The Mapu Ponies Oxen Coolies Currency Mode of carrying weights The Han River Nearly locked out. I left Chemulpo on January 2nd, but instead of making use of the minuscule ponies, I went on foot, sending my baggage on in advance on a pack-saddle on one of them.
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