Bank of Chosen - Tientsin - 1918
Cnr Rue de France & Rue du Consulat, French Concession.
Established in 1909 at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule, the Bank of Korea was renamed the Bank of Chosen in 1911 as a Japanese government bank. Like Japan's other major overseas bank, the Yokohama Specie Bank, the Bank of Chosen (朝鲜银行吧) was used by the Japanese to promote Japanese trade interests overseas and in particular in China and Manchuria. The use of what was essentially a "colonial" bank was an attempt to deflect Chinese animosity towards Japanese increased expansionism and growing hostility in the 1920s and 1930s towards Japan. At its peak, the Bank of Chosen had over 16 branches in northern China and Manchuria.
The architects were the French firm of Charrey & Conversy.
Bank of Chosen - Tientsin - 1918
Cnr Rue de France & Rue du Consulat, French Concession.
Established in 1909 at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule, the Bank of Korea was renamed the Bank of Chosen in 1911 as a Japanese government bank. Like Japan's other major overseas bank, the Yokohama Specie Bank, the Bank of Chosen (朝鲜银行吧) was used by the Japanese to promote Japanese trade interests overseas and in particular in China and Manchuria. The use of what was essentially a "colonial" bank was an attempt to deflect Chinese animosity towards Japanese increased expansionism and growing hostility in the 1920s and 1930s towards Japan. At its peak, the Bank of Chosen had over 16 branches in northern China and Manchuria.
The architects were the French firm of Charrey & Conversy.