CHINNAMPO
Chin-nam-po
This port was opened to foreign trade on the 1st October, 1897, in pursuance of a resolution passed by the Council of State. The port is situated on the north bank of the Tatung inlet, about twenty miles from its mouth, in the extreme south-west of the province of Pyeng-yang. It is some forty miles distant by water from Ping-yang, the third city in the Kingdom, with a population of 40,000, and it is expected that it will become a place of considerable commercial activity. The province is rich in agricultural and mineral wealth, the latter being now developed by foreign enterprise. Like all the other ports of Korea in 1907 Chinnampo was able to report a substantial increase in foreign trade.
The exports, which in 1906 amounted in value to £115,519, were returned in 1907 at £397,651, and the imports at £397,657 as compared with £293,433 in 1906. The business of the port is increasing year by year, the rich hinterland holding out good prospects for the future. Building operations in the General Foreign Settlement are going on apace, and where formerly only a few mud-huts were to be seen, sub- stantial wooden and brick buildings are now taking their places. The business community is entirely composed of Japanese and Chinese. The Japanese population is about 5,000
The principal articles of export are rice, beans, wheat, maize, cow-hides and timber. Of imports, cotton and silk piece goods, matches, kerosene, procelain, iron and hardware deserve mention. The harbour of Chinnampo affords safe accom- modation for a great number of vessels of the deepest draught and the largest tonnage.
BANKS
First Bank of Japan Fifty-eighth Bank of Japan
BRITISH AND Corean CORPORATION
M. Nakamura, manager
CHINESE MERCHANTS
Sui Sheng Chun
Tong Fa & Co.
Lau Wo Sun & Co. Sui Sun Chen
Shan Woo Sheng
DIRECTORY
•COAL MINES-IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD
L. Cuvillier, ingenieur en chef, E.C.P.
F. Pouchard, sous-ingénieur H. Truche, chef mécanicien
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN CHINA
Consul-Chang Kuo Wai
Secty. & Attaché-Kwang Hsi Chieng Assistant-Wang Chang Lin
JAPAN (RESIDENCY)
Resident-Akimoto
CUSTOMS
Commissioner—M. Aruga
Acting tidesurveyor—M. Ogawa
Assistant Yamasaki
Medical Officer-S. Koto
Examiner S. Sudzuki
Tidewaiters--T. Tajima, S. Noda, S.
Morita, H. Mishima
DAI ICHI GINKO, LIMITED
N. Nokoyama, manager
HORI & Co.
Owners of ships--"Kyenychae," "Kyenpo"
"Dai Tong Kang'
MISSION ETRANGÈres de PARIS
Rev. J. Faurie