This rare 16mm COLOR(Kodachrome) footage of Seoul was filmed in March 1938, by Thor Wiestlandt, a Swedish diplomat who stayed in Japan from 1936 to 1939.

It was discovered in the Film & Video Archive of Brighton University, UK in 2004.

The footage contains the scenes of two palaces in Seoul (Changgyonggung Palace and Gyeongbokgung Palace, Korean; 창경궁, 경복궁), and some rural areas and people near seoul.