Retrieval of Joseon era plant samples from Russian museum

(Xinhua/Yang Guang)

National institute of biological resources in South Korea announced their retrieval of Korean plants that date back to the Joseon era from Russia.

The institute announced receiving 100 plant samples of Korean old plants collected between 1886 and 1902 from Seoul and Incheon, and had been kept since then in “Komarov” institute for botany in Russia for over a century.

Some of the retrieved samples are of rare plants that was only found in the capital.

These rare plant samples were collected by foreign scientists towards the end of the Joseon dynasty and most of them are still stored in museums abroad.

The national institute of biological resources in Korea confirmed their efforts in retrieving the rest of these plant samples.