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Gyeonggyojang

One of my favorite pieces of colonial-era architecture, the Gyeonggyojang was built in 1938 as the residence of Choe Chang-hak, a Korean gold mining magnate. It was designed by Kim Se-yeon, one of Korea's first practitioners of Western architecture.

 

It is more famous as the post-Liberation residence of independence activist and politician "Baekbeom" Kim Koo, who was assassinated in his second floor office on June 26, 1949.

 

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Uploaded on January 9, 2010
Taken on January 9, 2010