Photo exhibition shows Koreans of 100 years ago

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Grinding beans (Seoul)

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Dining at a cheap eatery (Seoul)

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Selling chickens (Seoul)

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Carrying charcoal (Seoul)

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The Han River near the present-day Yongsan District of Seoul

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On a road in Seoul

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Elderly teacher smoking a long pipe at school (Seoul)

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Hunters on the outskirts of Seoul

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Blacksmith working on a horse (Seoul)

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Koreans under a large Japanese national flag; note the smaller Korean flag next to it.
(Japanese railroad companies advanced to Korea to build raildroad tracks.)

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Men hardening the foundation for a new post office.

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Officials of the Korean Imperial Telegraphic and Postal Office, Seoul, 1903

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Three men in front of a Buddhist temple

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Koreans praying to totem poles.

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Two happy men sifting grains on a road in Incheon

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A lady of high stature

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An elderly man with a pack, 1899 or 1900

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A boys school in Seoul, 1903

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A married couple visiting relatives, 1903

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A minister of the army with his son and grandchildren

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Min Young-hwan, the Chief Commander of the Korean army, Seoul, 1900

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A wedding ceremony (Seoul)

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(Wedding ceremony continued)

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Men carrying lots of luggage on a mountain near Seoul

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Seoul’s “first-class transportation system”

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An upper-class girl being transported in a wooden litter (Seoul)

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A happy-looking grandmother and children (Seoul)

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A popular cheap restaurant (Seoul)

Jongno-gu Naesu-dong area in 1894. Many low-ranking officials and their families lived there.
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Jongno-gu Insa-dong area in 1901.
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Unjong-ga in 1904.
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A picture taken from the Seoul Electricity Company in 1904.
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Jongno-based merchant Ju In-seob's wife's 60th birthday gathering in 1906.
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Royal guards in the late 1890's.
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Members of the Enlightenment Party. They staged the Gapsin Coup in 1884 that was suppressed in three days. The stories of reformist figures such as Kim Ok-gyun, Park Young-hyo and Seo Jae-pil are very interesting.

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Seo Jae-pil became a medical doctor in the US and married a niece of the former American president James Buchanan.

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Prince Yi Wu was born when Korea was part of Imperial Japan. Although he was expected to marry a Japanese noblewoman, he married Park Young-hyo's grand daughter, Park Chan-ju. He died when Hiroshima was bombed in 1945.

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