100 Years Ago Today
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 14, 1926 – A Brother Leaves Sangju for Tokyo to Reclaim His Sister-in-Law
On a late-summer Saturday in 1926, a man named Park Jeong-sik left his home in Sangju, a quiet inland town in Korea's Gyeongsang region, and set out for Tokyo. He was not traveling for business or leisure. He was going to claim the remains…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 13, 1926 – A Sweltering Summer Outside Seodaemun Prison
Seoul — then called Gyeongseong — was gripped by late-summer heat on Friday, August 13, 1926. Streetcars rang their bells along Jongno as merchants called out their wares, life carrying on as usual on the surface. But behind the walls of S…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 12, 1926 – Tokyo Reels From a Prison-Photo Scandal as the Genkai Strait Mystery Enters Its Ninth Day
Evening Edition · Thursday, August 12, 1926 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) - As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history Thursday, August 12, 1926. In Gyeongseong, two separate scandals kept the newspapers busy through the late-…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 11, 1926 – Judge at Center of Park Yeol “Mystery Photo” Scandal Steps Down
The presiding preliminary judge in the case of Park Yeol and Kaneko Fumiko had submitted his resignation on August 9. On this day, August 11, that resignation was formally accepted. The affair had begun over a year earlier, in May 1925, wh…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 10, 1926 – Two Months After June 10th, Seoul
🕙 Good evening. It's 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC), August 10, 2026 — and tonight we step back exactly one century, to a Tuesday in Gyeongseong, colonial Seoul, on August 10, 1926. Two months earlier, students had shouted for independence in…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 9, 1926 – A Prison Photograph of a Korean Anarchist Brings Down a Tokyo Judge
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. It is Monday, August 9, 1926, and the news that gripped colonial Korea this day did not come fro…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 8, 1926 – Five Days Into the Genkai Strait Mystery, Only Rumors Fill the Silence
August 8, 1926 (Sunday) · Gyeongseong · 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) As you wind down your Sunday evening, imagine Gyeongseong five days into a mystery no one could solve. On the night of August 3, a soprano and a playwright vanished from th…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 7, 1926 – Four Days On, Still No Bodies — Only a Phonograph Record Answers
Good evening, and welcome to "100 Years Ago Today." On Saturday, August 7, 1926, the search across the Genkai Strait for soprano Yun Sim-deok and playwright Kim Woo-jin entered its fourth day without a body, a note, or a single witness — a…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 6, 1926 – One Woman Vanished in the Genkai Strait, Another Conquered the English Channel
Good evening, and welcome to "100 Years Ago Today." On Friday, August 6, 1926, two very different stories about the sea were unfolding an ocean apart. In colonial Korea, the search across the Genkai Strait for soprano Yun Sim-deok and play…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 5, 1926 – Soprano and Playwright Vanish in the Genkai Strait, Shaking a Nation Still in Mourning
Good evening, and welcome to "100 Years Ago Today." On the morning of Thursday, August 5, 1926, readers in colonial Seoul (then called Gyeongseong) unfolded their newspapers to a story that stopped the city cold. Two nights earlier, on a f…
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