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[100 Years Ago Today] September 19, 1926 – Two Days Before Chuseok, Twelve Days Before the New Government-General Building Opens
"As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history" It is Sunday in Gyeongseong, and the harvest moon festival is two days away. A photograph in the Dong-A Ilbo of September 21 would carry the caption "The eve of Chuseok, yesterda…
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 18, 1926 – The Great Miami Hurricane Roars Ashore, Thirteen Days Before Gyeongseong
Inside Gwanghwamun Gate, construction crews were still finishing the stone facade of the Government-General's new headquarters. The building's frame had gone up the previous December, and offices had already opened there on January 4 — but…
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 17, 1926 – As Briand and Stresemann Shook Hands at Thoiry, Gyeongseong Counted Down Fourteen Days to Its New Government Building
THE KOREAN TODAY × WIA CODE WIA Code 스캐너로 비추면 인터넷 없이 발행 사실과 위·변조 여부를 확인할 수 있습니다.휴대폰 기본 카메라로 찍으면 스캐너 안내 페이지가 열립니다 — 기사 바로 열기 움직이는 코드(스트림) 한 장에 기사 전문(사진 포함)이 …
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 16, 1926 – As Mokpo
"As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history" In the port city of Mokpo, oil-mill workers had been on strike for eight months. In Seoul, the tremors of a Communist Party trial held three days earlier still had not settled. A…
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 15, 1926 – Sixteen Days Before the New Government-General Building, the Korean Communist Party Trial Continued
As you wind down your day, step back exactly one century, to a Wednesday morning in Japanese-occupied Korea. Before dawn on September 15, 1926, a crowd already lined the street outside the Gyeongseong District Court. Inside, the trial of t…
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 14, 1926 – As the Locarno Treaties Took Effect, Gyeongseong Still Waited on a Verdict
As you wind down your day, step back a hundred years with us. On this Tuesday in 1926, colonial Gyeongseong (Seoul) sat under a high, clear autumn sky, while thousands of miles away in Geneva, the world was quietly redrawing its postwar or…
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 12, 1926 – Nineteen Days Before the New Government-General Building
10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) — As the clock smiles, reflect on a century of history Autumn had settled over Gyeongseong on this Sunday morning. Across the Gwanghwamun intersection, the new Government-General building was receiving its final …
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 10, 1926 – As Stresemann Took the Geneva Podium, Gyeongseong Fought Censorship to Save Compatriots
Good evening. As you wind down your day, step back with us exactly one century, to Friday, September 10, 1926. In colonial Korea's capital of Gyeongseong (present-day Seoul), a newspaper published a quietly devastating appeal it could not …
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 9, 1926 – As Germany Took a Seat at the League of Nations, Mokpo
It's 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) as we settle into the evening of September 9, 1926, a Thursday. 🕙 In colonial Gyeongseong, the day had opened over half-finished brick walls, a courtroom still buzzing over yesterday's press trial, and, far…
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 8, 1926 – Reporter Choi Won-sun Faces 8 Months in Prison Over a Single Newspaper Column
Evening Edition · 100 Years Ago Today 🕙 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) - As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history Good evening. Tonight we return to a courtroom in colonial Seoul, then called Gyeongseong, on Wednesday, Septe…
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