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Gillian57 · Joined: 14 Oct 2008

Anyone interested in Korea before the Miracle on the Han, here is a set of photos taken by my brother while he was stationed here in 1966-1967. 34 of them are now on permanent display at the Suwon Museum of Modern History. Enjoy!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60112728@N00/sets/72157601531034869/

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Those were cool. Thanks. Your brother has a good eye.

Bloopity Bloop · Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Location: Seoul yo

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Gillian57 · Joined: 14 Oct 2008

Yeah, pretty neat photos. Took me a couple of years to get Suwon's attention, but once the people in City Hall saw them.... the pictures speak for themselves.

I still have control of the slides and I got ahold of an old slide projector. I use the pictures in my classes to teach the vocabulary on "How to describe your history/country" The students love that unit!

mt01ap · Joined: 04 Nov 2006

thank you for sharing these photos!
they are great!

oldfatfarang · Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: On the road to somewhere.

Excellent photography.

However, I'd say some of those photos could have been taken today ( in my small rural K town).

Jane · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

Fascinating pictures! Thanks...

Makes me realize how different Korea is 43 years later.

VanIslander · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:30 pm Post subject:

the bridge over the han river on page 2 has a vista of seoul that makes the city look like it's in cambodia

Palladium · Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Location: Korea

Someone posted some PDF articles of Korea from 1919 and 1948 from National Geographic some time back. Those were pretty interesting. Korea does not look like a good place to live in 1919!

BreakfastInBed · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Location: Gyeonggi do

Yeah, thanks for sharing! Those are great pictures and fascinating to look at. Nice work getting them into the museum.

prideofidaho · Joined: 19 Mar 2008

Burndog · Joined: 17 Feb 2008

Amazing photos. I will use them in a teacher's class...I think that it will generate some really interesting discussions. Thanks so much.

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

You can find the thread here: http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=127164

However, you need to modify the URL in the link:

http://www.koreanarchery.org/classic/NationalGeographic1919/

Be sure to put /classic/ after koreanarchery.org for the other pics.

FistFace · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:24 am Post subject:

Do you suppose the Seoul Museum of Modern History was interested in the "Short Timer's" Girlie caledar on page 2? Laughing

Tundra_Creature · Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Location: Canada

Great pictures. It's always fun to look back into the past now and then.