The National Archive has created an online 3-D model of Keijo Imperial University (now Seoul National University) as it was during the Japanese imperial period.
The archive has also posted the floor plans of colonial-era schools, and plans to create eventually an online archive of colonial-era architecture.
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this is a bad idea. why should the korean tax payer have to foot the bill for this? these kinds of things should be locked in a vault and allowd to collect dust. they serve no purpose.
if i had my way, i’d destroy them.
Wow, what a thoughtful insight regarding a way of dealing with the legacy of the Japanese occupation here on the peninsula. It’s a good thing that so many other people here have the same balanced and coherent views just expressed.
I love photographing architecture, and the occupation-era buildings in Seoul are some of the most interesting, so I welcome this initiative wholeheartedly. Korea needs to look after any of the older buildings that are left in this country, be they Choseon or occupation-era.
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[...] never one to be outdone, Korea has released some of it’s archives and created a 3d picture of Keijo University as it was during the Japanese Colonialism. 3d pictures are to my liking as running diaries are to [...]