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[100 Years Ago Today] October 30, 1926 – Five Days Before Korea
Good evening. It is Saturday, October 30, 1926, in Gyeongseong, the city we now call Seoul. A month ago, a silent film called Arirang opened at the Dansungsa theater. Today, its story still lingers on Jongno Street, the city's busiest aven…
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 16: The Conquest of Goguryeo, the Fall of Pyongyang in 668
Episode 16: The Conquest of Goguryeo, the Fall of Pyongyang in 668 In 668, the same year a Byzantine emperor was murdered in a bathhouse in Sicily, a kingdom that had humbled two Chinese empires fell in the gates of its own capital. Gogury…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 29, 1926 – Prussia Settles With the Hohenzollerns While Seoul Lives Under a New Colonial Capitol
Friday, October 29, 1926 · Evening Edition · 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) 10:10 - As the clock smiles, reflect on a century of history As you wind down your day, picture a Friday evening in Seoul a century ago. Our research found no article …
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 15: The Conquest of Baekje – The Victory of 660
Episode 15: The Conquest of Baekje - The Victory of 660 When a smaller kingdom borrows the strength of a distant empire, the fate of a state seven centuries old can be settled in a matter of days. In 660 CE, the Korean kingdom of Silla joi…
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- 100 Years Ago Today
[100 Years Ago Today] October 28, 1926 – Gyeongseong Awaits a Case Transfer, 2,000 Laborers Stir at a Hamgyeong Dam Site, and Rome Consecrates Six Chinese Bishops
It is Thursday, October 28, 1926, in colonial Korea. Six months have passed since the death of Emperor Sunjong. Four months have passed since the June 10 demonstrations in Seoul. A month ago, on October 1, a silent film called Arirang open…
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 14: Kim Yu-sin, Hero of the Unification
Episode 14: Kim Yu-sin, Hero of the Unification The great-grandson of a conquered king became the supreme commander of the conquering state. Belisarius served a Roman emperor; Kim Yu-sin served a kingdom that had absorbed his own. Kim Yu-s…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 27, 1926 – Pawnshop Murder Puts Seoul
Wednesday, October 27, 1926 · Gyeongseong (Seoul) · 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) "10:10 - As the clock smiles, reflect on a century of history" As you wind down your day, picture Seoul on this evening a century ago. Somewhere in the Jongno d…
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 13: King Muyeol, Architect of Unification
Episode 13: King Muyeol, Architect of Unification Winning a war is one skill. Designing the world that follows it is another. In 654 CE, a seasoned diplomat in his early fifties took the throne of Silla. He is remembered as King Taejong Mu…
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- 100 Years Ago Today
[100 Years Ago Today] October 26, 1926 – Half a Year After Sunjong
Tuesday, October 26, 1926 · 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) 10:10 - As the clock smiles, reflect on a century of history As you wind down your day, picture a Tuesday evening in Gyeongseong, today's Seoul. It is October 26, 1926. Six months ago …
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 12: Kim Chunchu
Episode 12: Kim Chunchu's Diplomacy - The Birth of the Silla-Tang Alliance An alliance is not an act of affection but of calculation. Yet to make that calculation work, someone first has to persuade the world's most powerful people. In 642…
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