Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . Fusan (^|ll), South KyungsangProvince (^foJifj;^*, the mostimportant port on the southerncoast, 280 miles by railwayfrom Seoul (i,itiilil, and 192miles by sea from Mokpo (;ici9). 297- A street of Fusan (gUj Fusan (^]\i pop. 02,000) is the driest ti-ading- port in the country, origi-nally opened as the suljstitute of a port called Chcipo (|^f iitl) lying to the westof it where trade witli Japan through the Island of Tsushima was carried onfrom remote times. Frsan (I^Uj) is now the first landing place on the Con-tinent for those coming from Japan, and this

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Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . Fusan (^|ll), South KyungsangProvince (^foJifj;^*, the mostimportant port on the southerncoast, 280 miles by railwayfrom Seoul (i,itiilil, and 192miles by sea from Mokpo (;ici9). 297- A street of Fusan (gUj Fusan (^]\i pop. 02,000) is the driest ti-ading- port in the country, origi-nally opened as the suljstitute of a port called Chcipo (|^f iitl) lying to the westof it where trade witli Japan through the Island of Tsushima was carried onfrom remote times. Frsan (I^Uj) is now the first landing place on the Con-tinent for those coming from Japan, and this geographical position, as ^^•ellas its s]:)lendid harbour, has given it the first place in the Korean foreign,trade. The feature of Fusan is its being wholly Japanese, and in it one can notbut feel that one is in Japan save for the white-roljcd Koreans walking inthe strecs. Few cities in Chosen have a greater future than this old port. There are two hot springs in the neighbourhood of Fusan, Haiundai andTongnai. Haiundai is on the s

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