100 Years Ago Today
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 7, 1926 – Hankou Falls, Wuhan Complete, While Seoul
"As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history" Tuesday, September 7, 1926. As dusk falls over the Pacific, we look back 100 years to Gyeongseong (today's Seoul), where dawn had broken over Gwanghwamun. A day earlier, Hanyang …
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 6, 1926 – Hanyang Falls as Seoul
As you wind down your day, imagine a Monday morning a century ago. In Gyeongseong (colonial-era Seoul), laborers were already hauling brick and stone up the scaffolding of the new Government-General building — a monument to occupation near…
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[100 Years Ago Today] September 4, 1926 – As Seoul
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 2, 1926 – A Month Before Its Grand Opening, Day Laborers Carried the Bricks of Empire
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 1, 1926 – Japan
Wednesday, September 1, 1926 · Evening Edition 10:10 - As the clock smiles, reflect on a century of history Good evening. It is 10:10 PM KST on September 1, 2026 — which means, in the world we are revisiting tonight, it is a warm late-summ…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 31, 1926 – Northern Expedition Troops Reach Wuchang
Evening Edition · Tuesday, August 31, 1926 🕙 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) — As you wind down your day, a century unfolds Good evening. It is Tuesday, August 31, 1926, in colonial Korea. Two stories reach us tonight: one from a newspaper off…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 30, 1926 – A Seoul Reporter Awaited Trial as Hesheng Bridge Fell at Noon
It was Monday evening in Seoul — 10:10 PM, August 30, 1926. Dong-a Ilbo reporter Choi Won-sun had been counting the days: nine more until his trial. Thousands of miles away, in China's Hubei province, revolutionary soldiers had seized a br…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 29, 1926 – The Anniversary No One Could Speak Of, as Gunboats Clashed on the Yangtze
Sunday, August 29, 1926 · Gyeongseong (Seoul), Colonial Korea Good evening, and welcome to "100 Years Ago Today." As you wind down your Sunday, let's travel back exactly a century, to a Gyeongseong just past the autumn-cooling day of Cheos…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 28, 1926 – Colonial Korea
Good evening, and welcome back. It's 10:10 PM in Seoul, but a century ago tonight, the city carried a different weight. Two days earlier, colonial Korea had lost one of its brightest young literary voices — a novelist not yet twenty-six. T…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 26, 1926 – At 25, Novelist Na Do-hyang Dies, Korea
On the evening of Thursday, August 26, 1926, word spread through Seoul's literary circles that a 25-year-old novelist had died after a long illness — and Korean fiction lost one of its brightest young voices. As night falls across the Paci…
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