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| ▲ This photo, provided by the Seoul City, shows Dilkusah. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Yonhap) -- Dilkusha, in Haengchondong Jongnogu Seoul, is opening its entrance stairs from the 24th enabling the citizens to visit the location through Dongnimmun Station and Sajikro.
Visitors can arrive Dilkusha in 10-minute-walk, according to the Seoul City Official. To get to Dilkusha, visitors have to come out through Dongnimmun Station exit 3, head straight to the Dongnimmun then make a turn to the left towards Sajik Tunnel and walk up the alley next to Youngnak Presbyterian Church.
The path to the house from Seodaenum Station, subway 5th line, will not be affected as well.
Visitors to Dilkusha can check detailed routes through Seoul Museum of History website and Seoul City Reservation for Public Service’s webpage for reservations or can simply contact Dilkusha’s information desk (070-4126-8853).
Dilkusha is the house of the American news media correspondent and mining engineer Albert Wilder “Bruce” Taylor (1875~1948) when he lived in Seoul during the Japanese colonialism with his wife, Mary Linely Taylor (1889~1982) and their son.
The Taylors built the house in 1923 and lived until imprisonment by the Governor-General of Chosen in 1941 and exile by Japan in 1942. Dilkusha was designated as a national cultural heritage in 2017 and has been restored. It has been opened for exhibition from March 1st, 2021.
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