new book - Buddhist temple history of Okcheon-am

Through the power of the Internet, the Venerable Woon Saan discovered the old Korea photos selected from Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs collection and displayed online at http://old-koreaphotos.wikispaces.com and included these in the (Korean language) book about his temple history and traditions. He will donate a copy to the LoC by way of thanks, too.

[photo shows book jacket; contact Woon Saan-sunim at Woonsaan Seok, woonsaan [at]empas DOTcom]

old photos by A. Mattice - naval photographer USS Juanita

Asa Mattice, a naval engineer and photographer attached to the *USS Juanita*.
Related is the *Syracuse University Magazine* article about an exhibition of the photos and more on how they were acquired.

Mattice Photos, http://jdstockphoto.zenfolio.com/p77737632
*Syracuse University Magazine* article, http://sumagazine.syr.edu/archive/winter03-04/viewfromhill/index.html

Korea in 1925 - one hour archival footage

... fascinating hour-long film made by a German Catholic priest/missionary (Father Norbert Weber (sp?), a Benedictine monk or priest) in 1925

...also contains still photos Weber shot on an earlier trip to Korea in 1911. It shows a lot of things that none of us, and almost no living Korean, has ever seen. I think it should be shared widely

...put together as a KBS Special but somehow comes to us through Chinese hands.

click http://static.youku.com/v1.0.0103/v/swf/qplayer.swf?VideoIDS=XMTUzNzE0NjQw&e

or paste the URL it into your browser

--more background:

Norbert Weber, the former arch abbot of St. Ottilien and the author of the documentary from 1925, passed away in 1956 (his dates are 1870-1956). The missionary you interviewed, I would think, was probably Corbinian Schr?fl (???, 1901-1990). Schr?fl had been a missionary in Yanji /Y?n?gil (in former Pukkando), and then later in the South, after the communists cosed down the abbeys in NE China and North Korea.

see also, http://tinyurl.com/3w82cdd [old images, but from a separate person's documentary sources]