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A discovery of rare photographs taken in Korea during the late 19th and early 20th century has revealed never-before-seen images of key figures in Korea′s history. Our Yim Yoonhee joins us today with more on this story. Last year, a huge collection of pictures taken during Korea′s modern history were found by a Korean professor at Rutgers University in the state of New Jersey. They were discovered in the William Elliot Griffis Collection and, of the 592 photographs found, hundreds had never been seen by the public before, including the ones you′re about to look at. The fifth son of Korea′s Emperor Gwangmu, Prince Yi Kang, lived during a tumultuous time in Korean history, during the First Sino-Japanese War. This recently discovered shot is one of the earliest pictures of the prince, taken in 1899 when he left to study abroad in the United States. Another photograph is of Heungseon Daewongun , known to some Westerners as Prince Gung. He served as regent of the Joseon Dynasty while King Gojong was a minor during the 1860s. The picture on the right, believed to be of him in his 40s, shows a much younger version of him. Seo Jae-pil, also known as Philip Jaisohn, was a leader in Korea′s fight for independence, even putting together the doomed Gapsin Coup to oust the Joseon-era leadership. He was the first Korean to receive U.S. citizenship and this new picture on the left shows a young 23-year-old Seo, taken in 1887. Another leader of the failed Gapsin Coup was Park Yeoung-ho. This rare image of the Korean politician at 25, before his involvement with the enlightenment movement of Korea. And lastly, Kim Ok-gyun, a reformist during the late Joseon Dynasty. The image on the left shows him at 35 years old, and though there are many black-and-white photos of him, this is the first known color photograph of Kim. And while these pictures reveal a small piece of Korea′s history, musician Hwang Byung-ki holds on to history in his own way. For decades, he′s been a master of the gayageum, one of Korea′s most popular traditional Korean instruments. And now, a new book about Hwang, compiled by English scholar Andrew Killick over 25 years, has recently been published in Korean. This is a book that was first written in English, and as you were telling me earlier, it was translated into Korean because of the importance of the content. That′s right. Hwang Byung-ki is a very important composer and musician here in the country. And this is the first book in English to cover an Asian composer who writes music for Asian instruments. Now, for those of you who don′t know, the gayageum is a 12-stringed zither that′s plucked. But the history of the instrument dates all the way back to the 6th century, where it was an important part of Korean culture, and now it′s still played by musicians of all ages, despite the growing trend towards Western instruments. So Hwang is an important figure in Korea′s traditional music history. Let′s go back to th