REDISCOVERING THE HOMELANDS Travel Myths, Images, and the Narrative of Return

The peninsula’s geographic proximity to and strategic location at the crossroads of three empires, China, Russia and Japan, made Korea an early target for the emerging Japanese tourist industry in the early twentieth century (see table 6). By the 1890s, ships from Japan’s oldest international shippi...

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Published inHeritage Management in Korea and Japan p. 142
Main Author Pai, Hyung Il
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Washington Press 01.01.2014
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Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
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Summary:The peninsula’s geographic proximity to and strategic location at the crossroads of three empires, China, Russia and Japan, made Korea an early target for the emerging Japanese tourist industry in the early twentieth century (see table 6). By the 1890s, ships from Japan’s oldest international shipping company, the Nippon Yūsen Kaisha (NYK), were already delivering mail, freight, soldiers, and passengers, connecting Shimonoseki to the ports of Inch’ŏn, Wŏnsan, Pusan, and Dairen (Dalian) in the Liaodong Peninsula (Nihon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha; hereafter NYK) 1896). In 1904, with the completion of the Seoul-Pusan line (Keifu-sen) and Seoul-Inch’ŏn line (Keigisen), the Chōsen Government
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