A set of rare photos showing the way ordinary Koreans lived at the beginning of the 20th century has been made public. The University of Southern California’s library website features some 150 pictures taken by the Rev. Corwin Taylor and his wife Nellie Blood-Taylor, who worked as missionaries in Korea from 1908 through 1922. The pictures have been put through a precision digital restoration process by the Korean Studies library, and some have been color-tinted.
 | | Doctors at the ear, nose, and throat, ward of Seoul Severance Hospital treat Japanese, Chinese and Korean patients. |  | |
 | | Country girls and elderly woman spread a straw mat on the ground for fulling cloth by pounding it out. | | |
 | | Dressed in traditional clothes, Japanese girls play house in front of a clothing store while Korean toddlers dressed in Korean skirts and coats look on. | | |
 | | Students at Paichai Academy, Korea’s first mission school founded in 1886. | | |
 | | A Korean wearing a gentleman's horsehair hat is being treated by a western doctor. | |
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