Exposing Imperial Japan

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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

2024-01-06

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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)

2024-01-01

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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

Keijo Nippo editors endorsed the People’s Republic of Korea and ‘class liberation’ in Nov. 3, 1945 commemoration of the 1929 Gwangju Student Movement with calls to ‘eradicate the remnants of Japanese imperialism and national traitors’

2023-12-25

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This is an intriguing article from November 5, 1945, originating from Keijo Nippo, which I found at the National Library

Post-Liberation

Kim Ku leads the way towards Korean independence with support of the Korean people (news editorial cartoon in liberated Keijo Nippo, Dec. 2, 1945)

2023-12-23

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This is an intriguing editorial cartoon from December 2, 1945, originating from Keijo Nippo, which I found at the National

Entertainment

A look into the foreign films showing in Seoul movie theaters in June to Dec. 1943: Ohm Krüger (1941) was heavily promoted to foment anti-British sentiment

2023-12-20

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This post will be a continuation of my exploration into the kinds of foreign movies that Seoul residents might have

Prisoners of War

February 1943 news article of British prisoners of war interviewed by their Imperial Army captors in Keijo (Seoul) POW camp

2023-12-16

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This is a news article from February 1943, published in Keijo Nippo newspaper, an organ of the Imperial Japanese colonial

Daily Life

American soldiers meeting local women and shopping for flowers and dolls in Seoul and Incheon, providing trucks to Patriotic Groups to clean the streets (September 21-22, 1945)

2023-12-16

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These photos are from pages of the Keijo Nippo newspaper that I stumbled upon during my visit to the National

Post-Liberation

U.S. soldiers guard the Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) newspaper office on September 11, 1945, three days after the start of the U.S. military occupation of southern Korea

2023-12-11

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This photo is from a page in the Keijo Nippo newspaper that I stumbled upon during my visit to the

Daily Life

August 28, 1945: Colonial regime announces a peaceful transition of power to the new incoming Korean government, reopens comfort women services, department stores, cafés in Seoul as popular uprising subsides, plans orderly repatriation of Japanese residents

2023-12-06

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This is another fascinating historical article that I stumbled upon during my visit to the National Library of Korea a

Post-Liberation

Koreans first read of the US/Soviet Division of Korea on Aug. 25th, 1945 in this historic Keijo Nippo news article explicitly announcing for the first time that ‘Korea is to be made free and independent’

2023-12-03

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This is another fascinating historical article that I stumbled upon during my visit to the National Library of Korea a