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around Honmachi, the very typically Japanese shopping street that branches off from this square. On the opposite side, running back to the Northwest past the Chosen Hotel into Taihei-dori in front of the city Office, is another broad thoroughfare, calied Hasegawa-cho. In this central part of the city the roads, public buildings and shops can bear favourable comparison with any of the great towns of Japan proper. Many other roads have been made and widened in different parts of the city, particularly in the vicinity of the new Imperial University, which lies in the north-east and was opened in May, 1926. The work of town-planning. the making of parks and so forth, is pur- sued regularly each year, though somewhat hampered at present by lack of funds. Lastly, mention must be made of the steep hill of Nansan, which dominates the city to the south, half-way up the slope of which the Japanese have set the great Chosen Shrine, at which Ama-terasu O-mikami, the divine ancestress of the Japanese Imperial family, and the Emperor Meiji, founder of modern Japan, are venerated as national guardian deities. This shrine is approached by a magnificant flight of stone steps, and from the terrace in front of it a splendid panorama of the city outspread below is obtained. The population of the city was 368,432 at the beginning of 1932, of whom 261,232 were Korean, 100,323 Japanese, 3,420 Chinese, 178 American, 91 Russian, 125 British, 23 French, 4 Swedish, 5 German. There are now 21.8 miles of tramway in and around Seoul, including the lines to the suburbs of Ryuzan and Mapo. A railway connects with Chemulpo.

DIRECTORY

AMERICAN TRADING CO. OF JAPAN, LTD.-

86, Hasegawa-Machi, Keijo

ANDREWS & GEORGE CO., INC.-Room 305, Nihon Seimei Buildidg 1. Nandaimon- dori; Cable Ad : Yadzu

BANKS

BANK OF CHOSEN, THE-11, Nandaimon-

dori, Keijo

CHOSEN SHOGYO GINKO-140, Nandaimon-

dori, 2-chome

CHOSEN SHOKUSAN GINKO-140, Nandai-

mon-dori, 2-chome

DAI ICHI GINKO, LTD-9, Nandaimon-

dori, 2-chome, Seoul

M. Asakawa, manager

S. Aoyagi, per pro. manager

K. Koima,

T. Shinto,

do. do.

KANJO GINKO-14, Nandaimon-dori, Keijo

YAMAGUCHI GINKO-5, Nandaimnon-dori,

2-chome, Keijo

YASUDA BANK—41, Hon-cho

BRIEN, DR. D. H., Mining Engineer.-

31, Takezoe-machi, 3-chome

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY-

92, Shoro; Teleph. 283 (Kokamon); Cable Ad: Testaments

Hugh Miller, secretary

Thomas Hobbs, assist. secretary

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF

SEOUL. 111, Hasegawa-cho

CHOSEN GOMU KOGYO-SHA, Rubber Goods

-88, Horai-cho, 1-chome

CHOSEN KENSHOKU K. K., Silk Filature-

181, Suinindo

CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY OF KOREA, Publishers and Booksellers, Publishing Office of the "Korea Mission Field," "Christian Messenger,"- Teleph. 275 (Kokamon)

G. Bonwick, M.C., secretary N. C. Whittemore, do.

Rev. W. M. Clark, D.D., editor Rev. R. A. Hardie, M.D. do.

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