Name of a Korean educational institution
pls
It starts with the name of a certain school, written by hand on a
brown-faded paper label attached to a wooden box that once contained - the
owner does not know what. The label reads
国立里裡農工専門大学, and the owner sits next to me and holds the box,
while i try to figure things out by querying the world-wide brain. An
interesting name,
里裡, but a Google search for it doesn't bring up anything useful at all.
But there is exactly one hit in Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Baidu (Japanese),
for
国立里裡農工専門大学, and that is this page:
http://www.jwrs.org/events/1997/971101.html,
where the name 朴 (Park/Pak) is mentioned next to the name of that college,
which points with both hands at Korea. So we have a hook here...
Also, Baidu (Chinese) has a link to http://orange-search.net/archives/農
工/伝熱/entry.html, which at one time appears to have contained the name,
but the contents of that page has changed. However, doing a search for
農工専門 on the site that page belongs to brings up another page, at
http://orange-search.net/archives/
農工専門/entry.html, with the following reference:
去る１９９４年１月１４日,本校と韓国の裡里農工専門大学(当時の学校名)との間
で姉妹校として学術交流協定を締結しました。
Ah... maybe we need to look for 里裡 instead? A search for 裡里 quickly
brings up the following explosive page: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/
裡里駅爆発事故 - and so i suggest to my guest that the name of this school
might perhaps be
国立裡里農工専門大学 - and, indeed, a search for that name turns out to be
more fruitful: Google gives us two results, one being
http://wikipedia.atpedia.jp/wiki/
旧制中等教育学校の一覧, which tells us that a newer (perhaps the current)
name for this school is
国立益山大学 (this is highly corroborating evidence: 益山市 is also
mentioned on that page telling us about the
裡里駅爆発事故). The other page is at
http://www.eess.mech.nagoya-u.ac.jp/japanese/kennkyuu.html, where we find
the following line:
山下博史，Triple Flame の火炎構造に関する研究，崔洛挺，国立裡里農工専門大
学 (韓国) . OK, so we've got the name right now...
Searching now on Korean websites for いり, we get two Hangul symbols, one
that looks like "o|" and one like a more angular "2|", and although my
computer doesn't have all the required fonts installed to show everything
on the page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul, i can see enough to
find out that the "|" is a vowel, represented in
ローマ字 by "i" and the angular "2" a consonant, represented by "r", so
"Iri" is as close as we get in Korean, too.
Now, that was fun. The payment? I left it to the customer to decide and got
a bag full of vegetables and a sixpack of beer. Not bad! ;-)
Regards: Hendrik
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