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important Japanese firms of grocers, caterers, etc., having branches in and around Honmachi, the very typically Japanese shopping street that branches off from this square. On the opposite side, funning back to the Northwest past the Chosen Hotel into Taihei-dori in front of the city Office, is another broad thoroughfare, called Hasegawa-cho. In this eentral 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 panorrama of the city outspread below is obtained.

The population of the city was 382,491 at the end of 1933 of whom 270,590 were Korean, 106,782 Japanese, 4,688 Chinese, 188 American, 114 British, 72 Russian, 27 German, 24 French, 6 Swedish.

DIRECTORY

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, Naudaimon-

dori, 2-chome, Seoul

Z. Takeuchi, manager

S. Aoyagi, per pro. manager

T. Shinto,

Y. Ito,

do. do.

KANJO GINKO-14, Nandaimon-dori, Keijo

YASUDA BANK-41, Hon-cho

BRIEN, DR. D. H., Mining Engineer

31, Takezoe-machi, 3-chome; Cable Ad: Brien

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY-

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

Hugh Miller, secretary

Thomas Hobbs, assist. secretary

BRODESSOLLES ET BOUTAINT-367, Taihei-

cho, 2-chome, Keijo

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF

SEOUL 111, Hasegawa-cho

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

G. Bonwick, M.C., publication secretary N. C. Whittemore, (on leave)

Rev. W M. Clark, D.D., editor and

actg. adm. secy.

Rev. R. A, Hardie, M.D. do."

CONSULATES

AMERICA Teido,

(Kokamon);

10; Teleph. 772

Consul-William R. Langdon: Vice-Consul-Ralph Cory

CHINA-15, 2-chome, Hon-machi, Keijo

(Seoul)

to:

FRANCE 30, Hamaguri-dori; Teleph. 977 (Kokamon); Cable Ad: Fransulat, Keijo