Month: March 2023

Colonial officials claimed ‘Korean must naturally stop being spoken as a result of the spread of Japanese’ ‘no words in Korean can express the essence of the Japanese spirit in a straightforward way’ ‘Korean will one day be regarded as just another local dialect like the Kyushu dialect’ (June 1943)

2023-03-22

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In June 1943, Keijo Nippo ran a long series of roundtable discussion articles, where colonial interior ministry officials gathered to

Daily Life

2023-03-18

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In this article, a famous Japanese author and novelist named Maruoka Akira (1907-1968) takes a trip to Korea in early

Entertainment

2023-03-13

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This post will be a continuation of my exploration into the kinds of foreign movies that Seoul residents might have

2023-03-09

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This article is about Park Deuk-hyeon (박득현, 朴得鉉), a Korean communist activist who was involved in resistance activities against Imperial

Philosophy

2023-03-05

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In February 1944, Governor-General Koiso gave a speech in which he used some pretty wild religious arguments, quoting passages of

Food Shortages

2023-03-02

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This is an interesting article about the dire shortages of miso and soy sauce in Seoul, where authorities apparently struggled