Elderly Korean farmer Kim Chi-gu (김치구, 金致龜),...

Japanese abductee escaped Korean Communist guerrillas in...

Tourist groups visiting the historical sites of...

Five Korean singers, including future pop stars...

The Korean people were allegedly descendants of...

Imperial Japan purged Korean schools of ‘pro-American’...

Korean girls in a “women’s volunteer corps”...

Converted Korean ‘ideological criminals’ (a.k.a. independence activists)...

Governor-General Koiso blamed excessive chili peppers for...

Young Korean men were ‘beaten into shape’...

Koreans generally used to make their own...

Propaganda story of Japanese couple adopting poor...

Kim Ku leads the way towards Korean...

Pro-Japanese Korean colonel (신태영)’s full 1943 speech...

Korean schoolgirls in 1943 mending military uniforms...

Month: September 2023

Saiga Shichirō (斎賀七郎), an Imperial Japanese Ideological Police officer responsible for the torture, false imprisonment, and deaths of countless Korean patriots, was assassinated in Seoul on Nov. 2, 1945 (reported by newly liberated Keijo Nippo)

Police

Saiga Shichirō (斎賀七郎), an Imperial Japanese Ideological Police officer responsible for the torture, false imprisonment, and deaths of countless Korean patriots, was assassinated in Seoul on Nov. 2, 1945 (reported by newly liberated Keijo Nippo)

2023-09-28

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For my fourth post that I am making during my stay in Korea, I am sharing a Keijo Nippo news

Korean staff at the newly liberated Keijo Nippo Newspaper published this editorial and illustration in December 1945 denouncing the atrocities of Japanese Imperialism and repudiating the myth of ‘Japanese-Korean Unification’

Press

Korean staff at the newly liberated Keijo Nippo Newspaper published this editorial and illustration in December 1945 denouncing the atrocities of Japanese Imperialism and repudiating the myth of ‘Japanese-Korean Unification’

2023-09-26

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For my third post that I am making during my stay in Korea, I thought it would only be fitting

Korean staff at Keijo Nippo took over news operations from their former Japanese bosses in Nov 1945 and then sent this message to Korean readers announcing continued publication in Japanese for the time being until Korean typefaces are ready for use

Japanese Language

Korean staff at Keijo Nippo took over news operations from their former Japanese bosses in Nov 1945 and then sent this message to Korean readers announcing continued publication in Japanese for the time being until Korean typefaces are ready for use

2023-09-25

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For my second post that I am making during my stay in Korea, I thought it would only be fitting

I finally accessed the 1945 Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo) archives in-person at the National Library of Korea – Korean employees apparently rebelled against their Japanese bosses in Nov. 1945 and took over news operations until the last issue published on Dec. 11, 1945

Uncategorized

I finally accessed the 1945 Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo) archives in-person at the National Library of Korea – Korean employees apparently rebelled against their Japanese bosses in Nov. 1945 and took over news operations until the last issue published on Dec. 11, 1945

2023-09-24

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For over two years, I have been passionately posting about Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo), a newspaper from the Japanese colonial

Military

Imperial Japan’s manhunt for the “Communist Bandit Kim Il-Sung” in the late 1930’s was sensationalized in news headlines all over Korea, capturing the imagination of the Korean public under colonial rule

2023-09-03

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Continuing my exploration of Korean colonial-era newspapers from the 1930s and 1940s, available on the Internet Archive since 2021, I