Annex Building of Former Sina ilbo (New Asia Daily) in Seoul

This reinforced concrete building, with one basement floor and two storeys above ground, is estimated to have been built in the 1920s–30s. It was used as, among other things, the Korean branch of the American firm Singer Sewing Machine Company, before being sold to Sina ilbo (New Asia Daily) in 1969. As the company expanded, a third and fourth floor were added in 1975, and the building served as the Sina ilbo annex until 1980, when the paper was absorbed into and merged with the Kyunghyang Shinmun under the press consolidation of that year. Built in reinforced concrete, a technique rarely used for private buildings at the time, it retains construction methods and structural features characteristic of the Japanese colonial period, such as a one-way joist slab structure and the use of round (plain) reinforcing bars, giving it value for the history of modern building technology. Having ceased publication under the press consolidation measures imposed by the new military government in 1980, it also stands as a site bearing witness to the press's turbulent history, lending the building considerable modern and contemporary historical and cultural value.

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Where it is

Region

Jung-gu, Seoul

Designation

Registered Cultural Heritage · 국가등록문화유산