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British and Australian prisoners of war arrive in Seoul and Incheon on September 25, 1942
Notes: For the best experience, I recommend also reading the first-hand accounts of the Allied prisoners of war to
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Prisoners of War
Part 1 – Thousands of young Korean men were recruited to guard Allied POWs, and guards were told to teach the POWs to “recognize the superiority of the Japanese people and to make them respect the Japanese Empire from the bottom of their hearts”
Notes: Some 3000 young Korean men were recruited by Imperial Japan as civilians to work as civilians to guard
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Prisoners of War
Part 2 – Thousands of young Korean men were recruited to guard Allied POWs, who were called “masses of materialism with little spiritual cultivation” and “mentally retarded people” whom the guards had to “splendidly guide and subdue”
Notes: Some 3000 young Korean men were recruited by Imperial Japan as civilians to work as civilians to guard
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Prisoners of War
In 1942 Busan, Korean pastors and foreign residents (Russian Tatar family, English woman, Chinese consul) praise Imperial Japan as British POWs captured in Malaysia start arriving in the city
Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) September 24, 1942 People on the ground asked about the captured prisoners of war landing
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