Korean–Western Architecture in Modern Korea and Beyond By Dr. Suzie Kim

Photographs taken by early American missionaries to Korea, such as Samuel Austin Moffett (1864–1939) and Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner (1889–1973), capture what life was like in Korea during the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, including people, buildings, streets, cityscapes, and rural landscapes. Focusing on in-depth research of rare images of now-vanished early modern architecture in Seoul and Pyongyang from the photography collections in the United States, this lecture examines the beginning of hybrid Western-Korean architectural styles for missionary homes, schools, and churches. Kim will also cover diplomatic missions and relations between Korea and the United States through architectural style, and she will look at how this influence went both ways, such as in the buildings of first-generation Korean immigrants in Hawaii and the Habib House, the U.S. chancery in Seoul.