tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post4058882963930107547..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: Marketing Gwanghwamun Plaza with false historymatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-42546142834006129792009-08-19T09:37:48.069+09:002009-08-19T09:37:48.069+09:00The ginko trees might have been planted elsewhere ...The ginko trees might have been planted elsewhere first and moved...sort of like how they moved it now. Also, modernizing historical places is sensible, especially if the country is the 11th economy. They can't rebuild a dirt road. You don't see Tokyo quite like it was a hundred years ago, much is changed, sort of like Korea. Paris does not have street vendors and studios along the Champs Elysees, it's full of shops and residences.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-89556508439194747752009-08-17T09:40:05.209+09:002009-08-17T09:40:05.209+09:00Poor trees.Poor trees.The Sanity Inspectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-42103501816978633832009-08-15T09:50:22.071+09:002009-08-15T09:50:22.071+09:00matt wrote:
I find these references to undoing thi...matt wrote:<br /><b>I find these references to undoing things the Japanese did and getting the facts wrong to be annoying.</b> <br /><br />"Annoying" is the least upset I feel about such things. Often — especially with the big things like the Chungangch'ŏng government building that had been turned into the National Museum — it is infuriating. <br /><br />The thing is, though, that with such destruction, the majority that is opposed to it doesn't speak out, sometimes for fear of being the only one who thinks that way. Since 2006 I've been planning a post that delves into that sociological phenomenon; maybe I should get back to work on it.kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-6987932533561886872009-08-14T05:30:33.713+09:002009-08-14T05:30:33.713+09:00Brian:
Thanks for that. The rationale strikes me ...Brian:<br /><br />Thanks for that. The rationale strikes me as ridiculous - the church was built <em>before the walls were torn down</em>, and played a part in the independence movement (something I'd judge as being important). Why it can't coexist with the wall as it once did, is beyond me, especially considering the wall was something I imagine many citizens found quite bothersome, as the people climbing over it in <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4479/883/1600/1904%20Namdaemun%20wall.jpg" rel="nofollow">this 1904 picture</a> suggests.<br /><br />Kushibo:<br /><br />I'm not too concerned about the plaza not looking like it once did, as I know they would never do that, but I find these references to undoing things the Japanese did and getting the facts wrong to be annoying.matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-5712226918212640822009-08-13T17:18:13.731+09:002009-08-13T17:18:13.731+09:00I was angry that they removed Chung-angch'ŏng ...I was angry that they removed Chung-angch'ŏng (it could have been <i>moved</i>) and I wasn't happy about the twenty-nine <i>ŭnhaeng nam</i> being removed. But at least they weren't destroyed. <br /><br />Like a lot of proclamations from tourism sources, I take it a little fuzzy. Just as I don't complain that they use concrete instead of adobe to rebuild California's missions, I don't get too upset about things not being exactly as they were 100 years ago. <br /><br />More to the point, at least you have an open space, as there was before, and Kwanghwamun will be rebuilt in its original position (that part's right, I hope). <br /><br />I wouldn't mind if the rebuild of Namdaemun included a tasteful but functional extension of the walls to whatever modern structures are on either side of it. If done properly, that could be kinda cool. <br /><br />After my 1935 home was razed in 2003, I was deeply saddened. I've since gotten over it. I suppose someone will be sad to see my 1981 apartment block meet the wrecking ball, but I'll be happy, and maybe that's the way the world works. London, Seoul, and Jamestown no longer have thatched roofs, and there's a reason for that.<br /><br />I'm getting too much into a philosophical funk now.kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-75993753331693602042009-08-13T15:03:12.407+09:002009-08-13T15:03:12.407+09:00Off topic, but you might be interested in this:
h...Off topic, but you might be interested in this: <br><br /><a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/08/117_50033.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/08/117_50033.html</a>Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07149708954524602455noreply@blogger.com