Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda
These news articles document a high-profile world tour by a Nazi German newspaper delegation which visited Korea (Busan, Daegu, Daejeon,
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This photo features a Russian Tatar clothing retailer in 1941 Seoul dressed in National Uniform Type B (国民服乙号型) and holding
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This 1941 article introduces Mrs. Shamshinoor Nugman, a Russian Tatar refugee living in colonial Seoul. The immediate occasion for the
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This is a July 1940 news article about a formal visit to Japanese-ruled Seoul by a delegation from Francoist Spain,
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This propaganda news photo, published in August 1944, shows a Korean family beaming with happiness and expressing gratitude to the
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Governor-General Koiso, the colonial ruler of Korea from 1942 to 1944, appears in a quintessentially authoritarian strongman photo montage in
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On December 12, 1943, during one of the darkest chapters of Imperial Japanese colonial rule over Korea, the entire peninsula
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This article is yet another example of “model Korean” propaganda, which props up an exemplary Korean collaborator as a model
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This February 1941 Keijō Nippo article documents something that is rarely discussed in the history of colonial-era Korea: the active,
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At the beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941, there was apparently a small community of German residents working
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