More and more Koreans are voluntarily registering their homes as cultural properties — in Guryongpo, Pohang, the owners of some 16 colonial-era Japanese residences have registered their homes with the city, and the town’s residents hope to have the entire area (which includes a surviving Shinto Shrine now used as a Catholic Church) designated a “Japan Town” and registered as a cultural property, the first time an entire village has been so registered. [Dong-A Ilbo, Korean]
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So that’s what people do in this country when they stop getting loaded.
Living in Pohang, I find this very exciting. There are several Japanese colonial era buildings on the coast, and I hope they will be preserved. Folks here are not as anti-Japanese as they are elsewhere.
I’ll have to seek out that church. Guryongpo has a new church, so I assume the one in the article is no longer used, although the building may stilll be owned by the Church.
Pohang is a neat place. This is an interesting initiative, and a welcome bit of good news compared to most of the stuff we hear about on the Korea-Japan front.
#3, just don’t tell pawi.
Refreshing news on the Korea-Japan front!
Until RohNo! confiscates all of the property and/or jails them for being collaborators.