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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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[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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[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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[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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[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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[100 Years Ago Today] October 25, 1926 – A Monday in Seoul: Na Un-gyu
🕙 Evening Edition · 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) Monday, October 25, 1926 · Gyeongseong (Seoul) 10:10 - As the clock smiles, reflect on a century of history As you wind down your day, picture a city with two stories running through it at on…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 22, 1926 – A Friday in Gyeongseong: The New Government-General Building Looms Over Gyeongbokgung as “Arirang” Fills the Theaters
Friday, October 22, 1926 · Gyeongseong · 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 night in Seoul, then called Gyeongseong, exactly one hundred years…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 21, 1926 – Twenty Days After the Colonial Palace Opened, a Full Moon Over Gyeongseong and an Empire Conference in London
Thursday, October 21, 1926 · Evening Edition 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) As the clock smiles, reflect on a century of history As you wind down your day, travel back one hundred years to Thursday, October 21, 1926. Gyeongseong, the colonial …
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 19, 1926 – London Opens the Imperial Conference That Defined “Commonwealth” While Colonial Korea Watches Arirang and a New Seat of Power
As you wind down your day, picture two rooms on the same Tuesday, one hundred years ago. In London, statesmen from Britain and its self-governing Dominions sit down at Lancaster House to decide what "equal" means. In Seoul, then called Kei…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 18, 1926 – A Monday in Seoul, Two Weeks After the Colonial Headquarters Opened and “Arirang” Packed the Theaters
It is Monday evening in Seoul, October 18, 1926. The week's work is done for the first day, and the lamps are coming on. Two weeks earlier, the colonial government had celebrated its vast new headquarters in front of Gyeongbokgung Palace. …
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