▲ This photo shows "Dilkusha," which means 'palace of happiness' in Sanskrit. Dilkusha is the house of Albert Taylor, an AP news agency's temporary correspondent who spread Korea's March 1st Movement in 1991. (Yonhap)

 

 

 

SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- Albert Taylor’s house “Dilkusha,” Sohn Kee-chung’s laurel tree and the Bosingak site have been selected as the Seoul cultural heritages of August, according to the Seoul City’s officials Friday.

Dilkusha is a house of an AP news agency's temporary correspondent, Albert Taylor who telegraphed the March 1st Movement for Korea's Independence from the Japanese colonialism which took place in 1991. Taylor built the house in 1923 in Haengchon-dong, Jongno-gu and lived until banished by the Japan’s Governor-General of Chosen in 1942.

Dilkusha, named after India’s Dilkusha palace by Taylor’s wife, means 'palace of happiness' in Sanskrit.

 

 

 

▲ This photo shows the interiors of Dilkusha. (Yonhap)

 

 

▲ This photo shows the interiors of Dilkusha. (Yonhap)

The Seoul City started restoring the long-time deserted house in 2018 and has opened it as an exhibition hall in March 2021. The interior is back in its form based on a photograph of when the house was occupied by the Taylor couple. Visitors can see the couple’s living style and activities as journalists in the early 1900s.

However, the house is open 4 times a day with a limit of 20 visitors for each session, due to the social distancing measures.

Sohn Kee-chung’s laurel tree, located in Sohn Kee-chung Park, has been designated as this month’s Seoul cultural heritage as well. The park was built on the lands of Sohn’s old school, former Yangchung High School.

Sohn received a sapling from Hitler after winning the gold medal for men’s marathon in 1936 Berlin Olympics and brought it back home which grew into a tree now known as Sohn Kee-Chung’s laurel tree.

 ▲ This photo shows Bosingak. (Yonhap)

At Bosingak, a bell pavilion, the annual bell-ringing ceremony for New Years in which the bell gets struck 33 times at the start of January 1st and various other bell-ringing events are held.

The bell of Bosingak was produced in 1985 and the first struck took place on the National Liberation Day of Korea that year.

Seoul City has been introducing the Seoul cultural heritages of the month since February.

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