Korean comfort women in a “performing arts...

Optimistic news coverage of Syngman Rhee meeting...

On October 10, 1938, the US women’s...

Minakai Department Store in Seoul featured a...

This Korean father made sure his family...

Korean schoolgirls attend a five-day swimming camp...

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

Western firms including Shell, Mobil, HSBC, Otis...

In 1917, an 11-year-old Korean girl in...

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

Koreans in Seoul streetcar observing mandatory daily...

Keijo Nippo editors endorsed the People’s Republic...

Korean economic crimes suspects interrogated by Seoul...

Five Korean singers, including future pop stars...

In November 1943, colonial authorities implemented a...

Month: February 2024

Education

Colonial regime forced Korean schools to drop English from the main curriculum to further wartime Imperial Japanese ‘character-building’ education (April 1943)

2024-02-19

556

In April 1943, during the throes of the Pacific War, a notable article was published in Keijo Nippo, the leading

Korean Workers

Model Korean mother left baby and bedridden husband behind at home to work as a clerk for Imperial Japanese Army, praised by boss for happily working overtime, early morning to late at night for 1/3 the usual pay without complaining, even when so exhausted she couldn’t see straight (Feb. 1944)

2024-02-10

498

This article features Mrs. Ahn, a Seoul native, who in the midst of war, leaves behind her baby and bedridden

Japanese Language

How Korean numbers (하나,둘,셋…) are related to Japanese numbers (hito-, futa-, mit-…), as explained by 1938 Japanese linguistics article from colonial regime

2024-02-05

420

I ran into this interesting linguistics article in the June 1938 issue of “Chōsen” (Korea), published as an official propaganda