Hundreds of articles left by U.S. correspondent return to Korea. December. 21, 2016 07:02. by Tae-Ho Hwang taeho@donga.com. Hundreds of pieces of items related to Dilkusha (see photo) including those left by Albert Taylor and his wife have returned to Korea. Albert Taylor was a United Press International’s Seoul correspondent who reported the March 1 independent movement against Japanese colonial rule and the massacre in a church in Jaeamri. Dilkusa is a two-story residence with a basement in Seoul and he lived in the house for almost 20 years until 1942.

The Seoul Museum of History said on Tuesday that Jennifer Taylor, Albert’s granddaughter, donated a total of 451 pieces of items including 14 photo albums, 79 paintings and 167 artifacts to the museum. Before this, she donated 57 pieces of items when she visited Korea in February this year.

Dilkusha means “palace of hope” or “heart’s delight” in Hindi. The donated items include the exterior and interior pictures of the residence under the Japan-occupied Korea, documents related to the gold mining business that Taylor did as a side job to a reporter, and the draft of “Chain of Amber,” an autobiography written by his wife, Mary Taylor.

“The donated items has a high research value as they show foreigners’ life in Seoul at the end of the Joseon Dynasty and under the Japanese colonial rule and goldmining on the Korean peninsula,” said Song In-ho, head of the Seoul Museum of History. The museum will hold a special exhibition in 2018 after preparations, and the exhibition will move to Dilkusha once the residence is restored in 2019.