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In this article I seek to develop the key pattern of East Sea Rim (ESR) mobility paradigm in the period between the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, which will also explain from when and how we have had the perceptions of ESR networks. Recently the issue of co-operations around ESR after the post-cold war has attracted the attention of many scholars. And yet the discourse of ESR is increasingly complicated and inconsistent in the fact that the sociocultural networks involving economic and political relations between Northeast Asia countries (such as Korea, Japan, China, and Russia) have been multi-layered. This means that it is significantly based on some cumulative mobilities constructed by international labour migrants, flows of goods, increase of traveling between countries, the development of internet and so forth. Needless to say, given that ESR mobility paradigm is relevant to the diverse mobilities of people, objects, images, information and products, we need to examine various matters with interdisciplinary perspectives, merging and comparing texts across languages, regions, cultures, and historical eras. I show what have fostered mobilities and networks in ESR, analyzing the ‘travel essay’ written by the early modern Northeast Asian intellectuals, who are, especially, Min Yeong-hwan (1861–1905, a minister of the Korean Empire), Vladimir Klavdievich Arsenyev (1872-1930, a Russian geographer, researcher of the Far East), and Torii Ryuzo (1870-1953, a Japan anthropologist). Most spatial imaginations of ESR produced by them are associated with the binary and hierarchical dichotomy so-called the modern concept of ‘Western’ and ‘non-Western.’ However that is not all. From early modern times, interdependencies between them have already been emerging. That’s what I emphasize in this paper.