Liberated Korea from Above

Jeju University has released hundreds of aerial photos taken of Korea by the US Navy immediately after Japan’s surrender in WWII. The Chosun Ilbo (English) has some of the photos, while the Kyunghyang Shinmun (Korean) has some more.

5 Comments

  1. Posted June 22, 2007 at 4:13 am | Permalink

    The second photo on the Chosun Ilbo article…interesting to see that Dongdaemun Stadium (or its predecessor) and the baseball diamond were already there.

    FYI, in the foreground, on the north (near) side of Cheonggyecheon, across the street from Dongdaemun, is the Seoul Electric Co.’s (or whatever it was called at the time) streetcar yards.

  2. Posted June 22, 2007 at 5:12 am | Permalink

    The second photo at the Chosun (showing Dongdaemun) is also erroneously marked “Jinsen” (Incheon).

    I looked several times on naver last night for links to other photos, but it seems the article Robert linked to was only posted today (and a great link it is). Don’t know why there was a lag (US military photos don’t rate highly, maybe?). I posted links to other photos and memorials of the arrival of the American occupation forces (including photos taken by a soldier whose hobby was taking photographs of Seoul’s environs and inhabitants in 1945-46) here.

  3. robert neff your flag
    Posted June 22, 2007 at 12:27 pm | Permalink

    Robert and Bulgasari -

    Great links and pictures….love these old pictures. I actually need to upload some more of mine…and some of the letters - of course with Robert’s permission.

  4. keith your flag
    Posted June 24, 2007 at 4:20 pm | Permalink

    Interesting pics. Interesting to see Dongdaemun, as I work around there.

  5. Korea Beat your flag
    Posted July 2, 2007 at 2:03 pm | Permalink

    I just posted up a full translation with pics.

    http://koreabeat.com/?p=62

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