Re: Kanji/Hanja - Chosun

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In a message dated 9/2/02 7:13:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time, evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com writes:


> You can get a copy of the map sheets from the National Archives.  What you 
> want is AMS Series L551, map sheets K-52-T & K-52-U.  My Korean War maps 
> are AMS Series L751, which have only Romaji names (mainly Korean names) and 
> no Kanji.


Ed,

I requested a USAF map from the Library of Congress, and they sent me a sample map of Korea, south of the 37th parallel. It has both Korean and Romanized characters. It's identified as Series L-451, Korea Road Map. It has a note attached that identifies it as a Corps of Engineers Map - 64th Base Topographic Battalion; and the comment 'Sino-Korean place name characters added in 1951 by the 64th Base Topographic Battalion."

I'd estimate the size of the map is about 1.5 times the size of a large AAA map.

I presume that one could request a map of North Korea from the same series . . . for a fee of course.

Sandy