February/March 1943 foreign movies in Seoul theaters:...

‘Selfless’ Imperial Japanese policeman visits pregnant Korean...

Kim Ku leads the way towards Korean...

The Lim Family portrayed as happy, model...

Mixed marriages in 1939 Korea: a Korean...

In 1935, Pyongyang Girls’ High School made...

A Korean father spent 8 years looking...

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

Colonial authorities discussed how to reduce prenatal/infant...

Korean family of radio broadcasting official lived...

In 1941, Tokyo officials forcibly settled 1,400...

In 1943, ethnic Korean school principal says...

Korean kindergartners holding rising sun flags shouting...

Koreans needed Imperial police-issued ‘travel purpose certificates’...

Koreans first read of the US/Soviet Division...

Category: Christianity

Christianity

Imperial Japan purged Korean schools of ‘pro-American’ professors, abolished Christian prayers, and labeled the English language as the ‘product of the enemy’, expelled Western missionaries (Dec. 1942)

2024-03-15

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I wanted to share something quite illuminating and, frankly, disturbing from a historical perspective. It’s an excerpt from an article

Annie Ellers Bunker, American missionary who went from personal physician to Empress Myeongseong to thriving philanthropist in Colonial Korea, was praised in this 1938 Keijo Nippo obituary for endorsing the Imperial Japanese Army

Christianity

Annie Ellers Bunker, American missionary who went from personal physician to Empress Myeongseong to thriving philanthropist in Colonial Korea, was praised in this 1938 Keijo Nippo obituary for endorsing the Imperial Japanese Army

2023-11-14

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This obituary from October 1938, published in Keijo Nippo newspaper, an organ of the Imperial Japanese colonial regime which ruled

Foreign Residents

Ms. B.F. Starkey, blue-eyed American missionary featured in 1938 Keijo Nippo as a pro-Imperial model foreigner inspired by Japanese-Korean Unification policy to join the Patriotic Women’s Association in Seoul

2023-11-11

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This 1938 article is a historical account in a colonial propaganda newspaper about Ms. B.F. Starkey, an American missionary in

Christianity

Despite Pastor Underwood’s heroic refusal to worship the Emperor, Korean churches were eventually forced to worship at Shinto Shrines and announce “we shall forsake the evil thoughts from our past dependence on the West, and strive for purification… towards a Japanese-style Christianity”

2022-12-25

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These articles are from December 1942, and they particularly stand out for their especially anti-Christian and anti-American messaging. They are

Imperial Way

In 1938, an Imperial Japanese ideologue took over Chungshin Girls’ High School in Seoul and replaced prayers with moments of silence for the Imperial military, replaced bible readings with Imperial vows, and scrubbed foreigners from school portraits

2021-12-27

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Chungshin (정신) Girls’ High School is a private school in Seoul that was founded by Dr. Horace Underwood, an American