நெஃப் சேகரிப்பு News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
Hunting tigers in Manchuria in 1912
koreatimes.co.kr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from koreatimes.co.kr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hunting devilfish in Korea in 1912
koreatimes.co.kr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from koreatimes.co.kr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
English invasion of Gangwha Island in 1890s
koreatimes.co.kr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from koreatimes.co.kr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
English invasion of Gangwha Island in 1890s
Posted : 2021-07-19 08:20
By Robert Neff
When Mark Napier Trollope visited Gangwha Island in the spring of 1894, he described the island s chief city as a miniature of Seoul, with its embattled walls climbing up and down the hills which surround it, its pavilioned gateways with their iron-plated gates, the old city bell hanging in its kiosk in the centre of the city, and rung night and morning for the shutting and opening of the city gates, and the official residences of the Governor, &c., representing the palace at the capital (sic).
Gangwha Island was, he declared, one of the most prominent sites in Korea. He went on to add:
Rafting adventures on the Geum River in the 1970s
Posted : 2021-07-11 08:35
Updated : 2021-07-11 15:15
The Geumgang (Silk River) from the walls of the mountain fortress in Gongju in 2017. Robert Neff Collection
By Robert Neff
When John K. Jackson, an American Peace Corps Volunteer, arrived in Gongju in February 1971, the first thing he noticed was Geumgang (Silk River) and its lovely sandy shores. The river would become an important part of his life while he lived in that city and is still one of his most cherished memories.
Jackson lived in a thatch roof farmer s house in a large pine thicket near the river, which he had to cross to get to the university where he taught. One day, in the summer, rather than walking the twenty minutes to the bus stop to take the ten minute bus trip to his school, he decided to wade across the seemingly shallow river as a shortcut. Holding his book bag, pants and shoes over his head, he started across, only to realize that it was far deepe