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They say that time is the most precious thing in life - far more valuable than money or luxury goods. People often freely (and sometimes, grudgingly) give and receive it between fr. ....
Often business is nothing more than the purchase of another person’s time. But sometimes, it takes a physical form. One of the earliest business transactions involving Americans and Koreans took place in the summer of 1883 when Kim Ok-kuin, a Korean official, purchased a number of items from James R. Morse, an American businessman who owned “The American Clock & Brass Company” in Yokohama, Japan. ....
By Robert Neff Rose Foote, the wife of the first American representative to Korea, was certainly painted in a negative light by Ensign George C. Foulk but she also had a soft side ― one that he chose not to mention. According to her biographer (Mary V. Tingley Lawrence, whose prose is definitely dated), even though Rose was busily engaged in the renovation of the legation, it wasn t enough for the energetic woman and she longed to do more. She chaffed at being locked up on the legation grounds and longed to go out and meet the people. She often climbed a ladder and looked down over the outer wall to study the spirit and the local color of the busy panorama in the crowded streets. The hard, primitive methods of the men and women at work, the hungry children, the squalid poverty and misery enlisted her serious attention. ....
By Robert Neff The first American representative to Korea was Minister Lucius Foote in 1883. We know a good deal about his official life ― and even some of his private life ― from his reports to the State Department and gossip from his subordinates and peers. I don t find him very interesting and feel he had a very minor role in early American-Korean relations. His wife, however, does interest me. A ROSE BY ANY NAME A beautiful image of Rose Foote. Date unknown - from Mary V. Tingley Lawrence s biography. Robert Neff Collection The dashing image of Lucius Foote, the first American representative to Korea. Date unknown - from Mary V. Tingley Lawrence s biography. Robert Neff CollectionRose was a graceful woman who dressed elegantly and was described as being accomplished and beautiful with a majestic bearing. She was in her mid-50s when she arrived in Korea, and generated a great deal of interest with Koreans of all social classes, not only because she was the ....
By Robert Neff Rose Foote, the wife of the first American representative to Korea, was certainly painted in a negative light by Ensign George C. Foulk but she also had a soft side ― one that he chose not to mention. According to her biographer (Mary V. Tingley Lawrence, whose prose is definitely dated), even though Rose was busily engaged in the renovation of the legation, it wasn t enough for the energetic woman and she longed to do more. She chaffed at being locked up on the legation grounds and longed to go out and meet the people. She often climbed a ladder and looked down over the outer wall to study the spirit and the local color of the busy panorama in the crowded streets. The hard, primitive methods of the men and women at work, the hungry children, the squalid poverty and misery enlisted her serious attention. ....