Thanks to reader Gillian, who posted a link to a Flick collection of beautiful photos of Korea from the mid-1960s. Most pictures were taken in Seoul or Gyeonggi-do.
Photos of Korea from the mid-1960s
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Many of the photos are truly beautiful. Thanks for the link.
Absolutely Brilliant. Thanks heaps
Welcome. My brother brought those slides home after he finished his tour here. Grew up on them. I still have over a hundred to be scanned. Yikes.
Fabulous! Love the one looking south over the Han…almost unrecongnisable.
Luckily mountainlines and the US base haven’t changed too much.
Nice photos. Koreans have so much to be thankful for.
Beautiful pictures! Thanks for the link.
They are very nice. I showed them to someone who would have been three then and they smiled and said, “yes, it was just like that, only our village did not get electricity until around 1972.”
Yeah, I saw them the second they were posted in the comments. They are amazing photos
Though it makes yah think… All of those images of the current urban landscape of cities like Seoul that guys like me are taking during our time here… I wonder if they’ll look like photos of a completely different world in 40 years time as well?
Heh, I probably won’t even be alive to find out.
Thanks for all your hard work, Gillian. It is a fascinating slide show.
I arrived in Korea in 1971 and all the photos bring back memories, though I confess i don’t remember any trolley cars.
Black jeeps everywhere, Koreans wearing komoshins (rubber shoes), ox carts in the middle of traffic pulling incredible
loads of assorted goods. A-Frames…
Thanks Gillian..more please
Richard: The streetcars were gone by ’68 or ’69, which is why you didn’t see them when you were there.
Gillian, Sonagi: Thanks for these photos!
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