{"id":4140,"date":"2014-04-27T13:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2014-04-27T13:50:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:50:58","slug":"chinese-signs-at-the-shilla-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2014\/04\/27\/chinese-signs-at-the-shilla-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese signs at the Shilla Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps one of the most remarkable changes in Seoul can be seen at the Shilla Hotel. A series of plaques\u00a0have gone up around the gardens surrounding\u00a0the Shilla hotel that explain\u00a0its history in Chinese. The signs are remarkable not only for the details they give about the history of Seoul and of the Shilla Hotel, as well as facts about the visits of Chinese statesmen. The signs are unique in that they exist\u00a0only in Chinese and there \u00a0are no English plaques accompanying them. That new practice\u00a0stands in contrast to what we find at \u00a0the much older statue of the founder of Samsung Lee Byung-Chul to be found behind the Shilla Hotel which has \u00a0explanations from another age in English, Japanese and Korean.<\/p>\n

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This plaque identities on of the eight scenes of Changchung (which I had never heard of before), the “108 Steps of Buddhist liberation from troubles.”<\/p>\n

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Sign in Chinese at the Shilla Hotel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I do not know when the plaques went up, but I do not think they are more than six months old. What I can say definitively is that Chinese have become by far the most dominant group of foreigners around the Shilla Hotel and that increasingly the tour guides at important places in Seoul are primarily speakers of Chinese. This rapid shift runs at odds with the general fascination of Koreans with the United States and the obsession with English in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps one of the most remarkable changes in Seoul can be seen at the Shilla Hotel. A series of plaques\u00a0have gone up around the gardens surrounding\u00a0the Shilla hotel that explain\u00a0its history in Chinese. The signs are remarkable not only for the details they give about the history of Seoul and of the Shilla Hotel, as … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seoul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}