100 Years Ago Today
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 10, 1925 – Forbidden City Opens as Palace Museum While Seoul
Good evening. It's 10:10 PM in Korea as we look back a century, to Saturday, October 10, 1925. On this single day, a newspaper's presses sat seized in colonial Seoul, a flood-battered city tried to rebuild before winter, an emperor's palac…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 9, 1925 – Korea’s First Census Winds Down, Revealing Half a Million Missing Women
Friday, October 9, 1925. Autumn light lingered over Gyeongseong, colonial Korea's capital, as census takers finished their rounds on the ninth day of the country's first modern population count. A preliminary tally, released just days earl…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 8, 1925 – Wonsan’s Dockworkers Raise a New Union Banner as Seoul’s Census Enters Its Second Week
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 코드는 스트림입니다 — WIA Code 스캐너로 약 5…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 7, 1925 – As Locarno Talks Enter Day Three, Chosun Ilbo Marks 29 Days of Silence
Good evening. It's October 7, 1925 — a Wednesday — and as you wind down your day, three continents were quietly writing history at once. In Seoul, a census tally kept growing and a newspaper's silence kept stretching. In Switzerland, state…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 6, 1925 – As Korea’s Census Count Continues, Flood Recovery Drags On
Good evening. It's 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC), October 6, 2025 — which means, one hundred years ago, it was Tuesday, October 6, 1925, in colonial Korea. Five days had passed since Korea underwent its first modern population census. In Gyeo…
![[100 Years Ago Today] October 6, 1925 – As Korea’s Census Count Continues, Flood Recovery Drags On](https://www.thekorean.today/wp-content/uploads/ins/imgdata/smilestory_kr/202607/2026072955024594-300x200.jpg)
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 5, 1925 – Census Takers Canvass Seoul’s Alleys as Europe Opens the Locarno Peace Talks
Good evening. As Seoul's lamps came on a hundred years ago tonight, the city was still catching its breath from a Monday spent counting itself. Four days earlier, at the stroke of midnight on October 1, colonial Korea had undergone its fir…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 4, 1925 – Gyeongseong Between Census and Shrine
"As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history" A quiet Sunday morning masks two sinister colonial projects converging on Korea's capital. As evening falls on October 4, 1925, we look back to Gyeongseong (today's Seoul), where…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 3, 1925 – Autumn Resistance in Colonial Seoul
"As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history" As darkness falls across the Pacific tonight, we remember those who gathered in shadows 100 years ago—Korean independence fighters who risked everything for a freedom they might …
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 2, 1925 – When Television Was Born While Korea Prepared for a Shrine
"As you wind down your day, reflect on when television was born while Korea faced forced emperor worship" As you settle in this evening, imagine ending your day unable to speak your own language at home, teaching your children prayers to f…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 1, 1925 – Korea’s Population Revealed: 19.5 Million Under Census
"As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history" As evening fell on October 1, 1925, census takers closed their ledgers. 19,522,945 souls counted like inventory. Every Korean, Japanese, and foreigner in the peninsula tallied up…
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