The Opening Years

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Upright - an old gate and a new gate open side by side in the same wall. Today both stay open.

Reversed - with both gates open the wind passes through. What to let in is decided separately.

After the ports opened in 1876, new institutions and goods entered Joseon.

The telegraph, streetcars, the postal service and modern schools began in this period.

Legations and Western-style buildings rose around Jeongdong in Seoul.

Hanbok and suits, thatch and brick stood on the same street.

The Korean Empire was proclaimed in 1897.

We have not yet measured which places connect to this tale.

국사편찬위원회 우리역사넷 「개항과 개화」

국가유산청 국가유산포털 「구 러시아공사관」·「정관헌」