Talk:Government-General of Chōsen Building

Pictures needed!

Please add pictures of the building if you have them. It was still standing 10 years ago, it can't be that hard to find some. Pictures of the demolition would also be helpful. ProhibitOnions 23:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

wow, nice job! i'll keep an eye out, but it's probably not gonna be easy finding a free-licensed pic. Appleby 23:33, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Just about anyone who was in Seoul before 1996 has pictures of it. Surely some of our Korean friends can help out here. (I first visited Seoul after the demolition and can supply a picture of the site, but this might be interesting only as a before-and-after comparison). ProhibitOnions 18:55, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I have added a picture of the building that I took in 1995. It's about as good a picture as I could get considering the way the building was wedged in between the inner and outer gates of the palace.

The picture of the lowering of the Japanese flag is a great one for the article, but the 4-degree tilt really bugs me. I starightened and cropped it. What do you think of me uploading a new version?

I'd like to get rid of the picture of President Syngman Rhee. It's over-exposed and washed out and doesn't really show the building anyway (just a tiny sliver of it). Deleting it would leave it orphaned, but I don't know if it deserves to stay. Canadiana 05:53, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for adding that picture, and if you have any more (such as inside, or from the front), please add them as well. Depending on what you have, you might add a picture to National Museum of Korea as well.

The Syngman Rhee picture is iconic and of historical significance, although the quality of this iteration is poor; it was the only version I could find (I live in Berlin, not Korea). I'd like to keep it, but if you can find a better copy of this historic image, please replace it. If you look at the copyright justification, I have mentioned a couple of other articles (such as Syngman Rhee) where it could also go, but have not yet placed it there. Anyway, the point was to illustrate the importance of the building to the Republic of Korea, not just the Japanese.

I'm not bothered by the tilt in the other picture, and rotating images involves a loss of quality, so I would tend toward leaving it the way it is. The tilt was evidently in the original image, and the photographer would have easily been able to remove the tilt, so I suspect it was left that way intentionally, hence my reluctance to fiddle with it. We could chop off the caption without much fuss, though. Regards,  ProhibitOnions  ^(T) 08:29, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the additional pictures. They really add to the article I think. One of the new pictures is slightly tilted which doesn't really bother me but it makes the very tilted one look even worse. Here is my rotated version: Image:JapaneseSurrenderSeoul (80-G-391464 straightened).jpg. It links to the original (which can stay for reference purposes), but I think the straightened version gives a more professional appearance to the article. I don't believe the tilt was intentional, though I don't suppose we will ever know for sure. I had to invent a tiny triangle of plain sky in the upper left, but I think the quality is no worse that the original.

I don't think I have any pictures of the museum interior, except for artifact close-ups. The gate at the front I think was too close to the building to get a good picture of the front of it. The gate was moved to the east side before the Japanese building went up and wasn't restored until 1963 (I think that's the year), so that's why there are some pictures showing the front of the building. Canadiana 16:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm. Maybe you're right, the straightened image would be better! I was just concerned that rotating it would add artefacts along the edges (such as the flagpole), though this really isn't bad; and would cut off even more of the building, though it's not really a problem. I'd have no objection to putting the straightened one up instead. And again, if you have any other pictures that might be ok, let's have a look; we can always start a gallery.

Unfortunately, Korea is one of the places where Wikipedia hasn't really caught on yet, so there's not quite the same article density on Krean topics (and the Korean Wikipedia is also not as robust as it could be). I have some pictures of North and South Korea that I need to scan in for some other articles, but as mentioned above, I first visited Seoul after this building was gone. (OTOH, Seoul Station only shows the new building, so I could help with that.)  ProhibitOnions  ^(T) 19:03, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Location

Was the Japanese General Government Building located inside the Gyeongbokgung? Because the pictures make it look like it was located right behind the Gwanghwamun. (Taiketsu (talk) 17:56, 19 March 2008 (UTC))

Japanese Crown?

The dome was shaped like the Japanese crown? The emperor has a crown? I have never seen him wear a crown, certainly not one that looks like a dome. Paul, in Saudi (talk) 02:35, 7 July 2010 (UTC)