Via a reader tip comes the picture of this building serving as a US military PX:
So who knows what this building is?
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10:29 am on July 22nd, 2008 1
Shinsege
12:54 pm on July 22nd, 2008 2
Mitsukoshi department store.
12:54 pm on July 22nd, 2008 3
Seoul City Hall
1:05 pm on July 22nd, 2008 4
Sirs, I need the name of a good “people finder” agency as I am trying to find a Korean national I served with in 1965 at Camp Casey. The name was Pak, sung Ja and this individual would be 55-60 by now. Any help would be appreciated.Landrum 1/31 7th ID 1965/66
I plan to get back to TDC by next spring for a week’s visit. Thanks for reading. Jimmy
1:14 pm on July 22nd, 2008 5
Jimmy,
I’m sure the Koreans could come up with a Pak Sung-Ja for you, but he might have a case of amnesia.
1:49 pm on July 22nd, 2008 6
Well, since the name Mitsukoski wasn’t used at this branch following WWII, and Shinsegae wasn’t used until 1963, then at the time of this picture this would have been called the Donghwa Department Store.
2:25 pm on July 22nd, 2008 7
I Guess it depends on when the picture was taken or more precisely the name of the building is NOW.
So I guess Shinsegae got it.
If you are interested, here is a nice historical write up: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2872819
2:32 pm on July 22nd, 2008 8
It is definitely the present Shinsegye store, and I seem to recall reading that either before or after it was used as a PX it also served as a nightclub for Americans primarily (Korean females could also come in if they were “guests,” but not Korean men). Can anyone confirm this information?
6:37 pm on July 22nd, 2008 9
I am going to give the points to Crackus but good comments by everyone else. The JoongAng link was interesting to read and in it I didn’t see anything in it about the building being used as a night club by the US only as a PX.
7:35 pm on July 22nd, 2008 10
“(Korean females could also come in if they were “guests,” but not Korean men). Can anyone confirm this information?”
If only the rest of Korea was like that.
7:36 pm on July 22nd, 2008 11
GI, that was in a Korean-language book about the history of Seoul I read a long time ago. I just wonder about the reliability of the source. I wonder if any historians with USFK would have more info on the nightclub period…