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Model Korean Family

The Lim Family portrayed as happy, model pro-Japanese Koreans eagerly sending their eldest son Yeongjo to enlist in the ‘honorable’ Imperial Army as his little sister Imako-chan frolics with joy (Dec. 1943)

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In December 1943, amidst the turmoil of World War II, Korea found itself under the colonial rule of Imperial Japan,

Education

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

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

Model Korean Family

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)

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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

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

Imperial Way

Colonial regime made impassioned case for Japanese-Korean Unification in ranting mythological and historical narrative invoking the story of Yeonorang and Seonyeo, Shinto god Susanoo who settled in Silla, Prince Go Yak’gwang and Goguryeo refugees who settled in Musashi, Japan in 717 (April 1944)

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A supporter sent me a copy of an extremely interesting wartime propaganda book published in April 1944 by the Imperial

Post-Liberation

Imperial Japanese news staff departing Korea wrote last words celebrating the ‘Young Korea’ as a ‘joyous uprising’, praising Kimchi, saying goodbyes to Korean collaborator writers, baring ‘a heart full of desolation’, mourning a daughter’s death, criticizing war leaders… (Nov. 1, 1945)

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This is the second part of a two-part series. The first part is posted here. The following is content from

Post-Liberation

Japanese news staff wrote sad and internally conflicted farewell essays to the Korean people in the very last page of Keijo Nippo (colonial propaganda newspaper) published under Japanese control before takeover by Korean activists on Nov. 2, 1945

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The following is content from a Seoul newspaper published on November 1, 1945, two and a half months after Japan’s

Post-Liberation

‘Malicious brokers’ and impoverished Koreans fought each other in cutthroat battles to lay claim to empty houses vacated by the Japanese in Seoul in immediate post-war period

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Continuing with my ongoing exploration of the old newspaper archives from 1945 Korea that I checked out at the National

Post-Liberation

Nov. 1945 news articles called out Korean ‘national traitors’ who helped Japanese residents liquidate their assets into cash to take back to Japan, even public shaming one man by name

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Continuing with my ongoing exploration of the old newspaper archives from 1945 Korea that I checked out at the National

Post-Liberation

Optimistic news coverage of Syngman Rhee meeting with communist leader Park Heon-young in ‘national unity’ talks, nationwide expansion of People’s Republic of Korea, militant opposition to US-Soviet trusteeship (Nov. 2, 1945)

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Continuing with my ongoing exploration of the old newspaper archives from 1945 Korea that I checked out at the National