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Posted : 2021-03-02 10:52 Updated : 2021-03-02 11:05 An old photograph of Dilkusha from the Seoul History Museum exhibit in 2019. / Courtesy of Seoul History Museum By Robert Neff Seoul's newest museum is perched up on the hillside above Sajik Tunnel and flanked by a massive ginkgo tree in a two-story brick building known as Dilkusha. Built in 1923 by the American goldminer, businessman and journalist Albert Taylor for his wife Mary, the couple lived in the house until 1942 when they ― along with most of the Westerners living in Korea ― were deported from Korea by the Japanese. Many p...

American journalist's house 'Dilkusha' to be opened to public Posted : 2021-02-26 09:05 Updated : 2021-02-27 12:44 Jennifer Taylor, granddaughter of Albert Taylor, the first U.S. journalist to report on the March 1, 1919, independence movement by Koreans against Japan, looks at the restored home of her grandfather in Seoul, Thursday. Yonhap By Bahk Eun-ji The Seoul Metropolitan Government said, Thursday, that it has restored a house of Albert W. Taylor, a journalist from the United States who first reported on the 1919 March 1 Independence Movement against Japan to the world, and would ope...