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This picture is a drawing of people walking toward a village. Some are wearing hats shaped like an umbrella. The caption is Seoul – Capital of Korea. The letter "S" of the word, Seoul, is drawn over a little map. The little map shows the city of Seoul on the Han River. It also shows a canal going south from the Han River. It shows the Chemulpo dock in Incheon as if on that canal rather than the bay farther south.
Seoul – Capital of Korea

                            THE CITY of Seoul is the quaintest I have ever seen. A visit to the Korean capital is one of the choicest tidbits on the menu of modern travel.

The usual approach to Korea is by way of Nagasaki, in a Japanese steamer which first touches Fusan, a thriving port at the southern end of the peninsula that we call Korea but which is known to the Japanese as "Cho-Sen" – "The Land of the Morning Freshness," and to its own people by

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