Walking in the Footsteps of the Past: Miryang in 1884
By Robert Neff In the fall of 1884, George C. Foulk, an American naval ensign assigned to the American legation in Seoul, undertook an extensive tour through the southern part of the Korean peninsula. His observations ― carefully recorded in minute detail in his travel journals and letters home ― provide some of the best and earliest English descriptions of the regions outside of Seoul. On the morning of December 4, 1884, Foulk was rather tired. He had spent the previous evening in a bed bug infested inn and had slept very poorly. As he and his party trudged on towards the town of Miryang...
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