Share your interactive ePaper on all platforms and on your website with our embed function. Hulbert A. Hermit Kingdoms, no Forbidden Lands remaining. If the opening of Thibet had been of value it would have been done ere now. It was on Feb. Korean people were quick to discover the value of foreign trade. The opening of trade necessitated the establishment of a Customs Service.
In the third place the opening of Korea naturally gave an impulse to agriculture. In the mining field great activity has been manifested. Korea and have made phenomenal progress in it. The roads north and south from Seoul have already been begun. Korea Japan has taken the leading part. Gate to the center of the city have been widened to generous proportions. In the second place the drainage of the city demands notice. Many of the lesser drains have likewise been improved.
In the matter of building, great and laudable activity has been shown. Japanese Government has also erected a handsome Consulate building. Seoul Electric Railway. Japanese population of two thousand or more. East Gate, and between Chong-no, the center of the city, and the river town of Yong-san.
American and Korean enterprise. Korean people. Korean official chair. Chemulpo at the threshold of the Twentieth Century presents a very interesting subject. The growth of the city has been steady and almost phenomenal. Property has doubled in value several times over. Territorially the port has spread itself like the proverbial green bay tree.
Had this been done the town would have spilled over into the sea long ago. Ijuin, Esq. General Manager, T. Adachi, Esq. Chinese Consul, C. Tong, Esq. Here reside most at the Chinese residents of the port. Steward, with an American name and a thoroughly progressive spirit.
