White pine tree, a well-known landmark of Jaedong, Seoul[청계천 옆 사진관]

2024-06-30 05:15:46

Byun Younger-wook’s Centennial Picture No. 67

This week’s Baeknyeon Picture chosen one picture from a sequence of articles that had been serialized within the Dong-A Ilbo 100 years in the past. It’s a picture of Baeksong (白松) in Jaedong, Seoul.

From June 25, 1924 to August 15, 1924, two images had been revealed on web page 3 of the Dong-A Ilbo every single day. It was a sequence of articles revealed for 50 days, and the signal learn, “Picture Article – Ilbaekdongjeong (一百洞町) Ilbaek Well-known Issues (一百名物).” This was a bit introducing well-known native merchandise.

Anguk-dong Gamgodang, Jongno Jonggak, Wondong Mosquito, Gongpyeong-dong Courtroom, Gyedong Sanitation Middle, Susong-dong Cavalry, Hwa-dong Bokju Nicely, Gahoe-dong Chiwoonjeong, and Sogyeok-dong Jongchinbo had been launched successively.

Amongst them, let’s take a look at the picture of Baeksong in Jaedong from the July 1st concern. The particular person introducing it’s not a reporter from Dong-A Ilbo, however a citizen dwelling in Jaedong, Ms. Kim Sook-ja. It’s distinctive that articles from different dates are additionally defined with the names of residents dwelling within the neighborhood.

A photograph of Baekpine in Jaedong, Seoul, revealed on web page 3 of the Dong-A Ilbo on July 1, 1924.

Jaedong Baeksong

Corrector Jaedong Kim Sookja In our Jaedong, there’s a well-known white pine tree in Jang-an. The phrase white pine actually means white pine tree. Since it’s known as white pine tree, don’t suppose that the pine needles are white. The pine needles are inexperienced all 12 months spherical like different pine bushes, and the tree trunk is totally different from abnormal pine bushes, so it’s known as white. This white pine tree is at the moment within the Jaedong 2 dormitory of Gyeongseong Ladies’ Excessive Faculty, and has been standing there with its white physique for lots of of years. And the hometown of this white pine is China. That point was most likely the Yi Dynasty period. It is a shameful story, however at the moment, envoys from our nation all the time got here to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty. This white pine tree was created by an envoy who had entered the Qing Dynasty at the moment, and since the tree was so unusual, he introduced again a small white pine tree, planted it, and grew it. It’s now the white pine tree in Jaedong. Time passes, the world adjustments, and now below the pine tree the place Jeong Seung-panseo, who sleeps in a heat and cozy garments, used to assist, Japanese feminine college students carrying black garments come below the white pine tree to learn books, searching for shade on scorching days like today. You might not know that the world is really altering.

Gyeongseong Ladies’ Excessive Faculty later grew to become Gyeonggi Ladies’ Excessive Faculty. It’s now in Gaepo-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, however on the time, it was in Jongno, Seoul. The Constitutional Courtroom of Korea is now positioned there. There’s an introduction to Jaedong Baeksong on the Constitutional Courtroom’s homepage. “The location of the Jaedong constructing was the previous residence of Hwanjae Park Gyu-su (朴珪壽, 1807-1876), a reformist and proper minister within the late Joseon Dynasty, and the primary normal hospital in Korea, Gwanghyewon (廣惠院, 1885-1887), based by missionary physician Allen. After that, Gyeonggi Ladies’ Excessive Faculty and Changdeok Ladies’ Excessive Faculty had been positioned there, making it a historic cradle of training that fostered many proficient folks. Additionally, inside the premises is the Pure Monument No. 8, the 600-year-old Jaedongbaek Pine, a uncommon tree with just a few remaining in Korea.”

In that case, it is rather doubtless that the white pine tree within the yard of the Constitutional Courtroom is the pine tree that was launched within the newspaper 100 years in the past. Nevertheless, the white pine tree within the picture seems to be like one tree, however the white pine tree within the Constitutional Courtroom is definitely one tree, nevertheless it has grown into two giant branches from the bottom, so it seems to be like two bushes.

To enter the Constitutional Courtroom, you could write your title and cell phone quantity on the entrance safety workplace and obtain a customer’s go. If you happen to occur to be close by, why not check out the Constitutional Courtroom, the very best constitutional establishment in our nation, and the well-known Constitutional Courtroom pine tree that also stands right now?

At the moment, we checked out a photograph of a white pine tree in Jaedong, Seoul, that was revealed in a newspaper 100 years in the past. What did you discover within the picture?

We dwell in an period the place anybody can take nice footage of their household and surroundings with a smartphone digital camera. In an age the place pictures has develop into commonplace, we search for the unique type of our pictures. A photojournalist selects and introduces a black-and-white picture that was revealed in a newspaper 100 years in the past each week. If readers’ imaginations are added to this, the context of the picture will develop into clearer.

Reporter Byun Younger-wook [email protected]

Picture studio subsequent to Cheonggyecheon

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