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Category: 1945-1950

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

1945-1950/visual culture

Manhua Journey to the West

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have mentioned Nick Stember before, but now he is doing a full translation of Zhang Guangyu’s manhua version of Journey to the West. This is worth looki...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/Contemporary/Korea-Japan/Korean War/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Politics of Health / Medicine, post 1945

Posted on August 7, 2011 by John P. DiMoia / 0 Comment

I’ve been thinking again about the broader issue of beginning to approach the South Korean post-colonial state and post-1945 medicine, recognizing the imm...

1945-1950/Books and Articles/Film/Korea/US-Korea

Cultural Consumption and Comprehension

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There’s an interesting article up at Japan Focus this week, “Disarming Japan’s Cannons with Hollywood’s Cameras: Cinema in Korea Under U.S. Occupati...

1945-1950/Food/Korea/US-Korea

Candy and School Lunches

Posted on October 27, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

In the New York Times yesterday there was an interesting article entitled, “Is Candy Evil or Just Misunderstood?” In particular it discussed the rel...

1945-1950/1960s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Korea-Japan/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Generating Power–Electric, hydroelectric, thermal (coal), atomic

Posted on February 15, 2010 by John P. DiMoia / 7 Comments

I’m back once again to this question of electricity and power in its various forms, as I think the long-term story of generating power in NE Asia (1880...

1945-1950/Colonial/General/Korea-Japan/US-Korea

Electricity, Infrastucture: “Reconstruction”

Posted on August 24, 2009 by John P. DiMoia / 0 Comment

This image comes from a USIS publcity shot taken at Masan in the mid-  1950’s, detailing the work of electrical restoration undertaken prior to,  during, ...

1945-1950/Art/General/Korea/Korean War/Memory/North Korea

Korean War in art

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Japan Focus has an article detailing and displaying Gobau’s Korean War art which has a plethora of arresting images. Gobau worked from the Republic of Kor...

1945-1950/Colonial/Korea-Japan

Cholera: Disease, Nation, and Identity?

Posted on November 1, 2008 by John P. DiMoia / 8 Comments

I’ve been looking at disease patterns in the early stages of the USAMGIK occupation, focusing on the cholera outbreak of spring and summer 1946, covering ...

1945-1950/Colonial/Film/General/Korean War/US-Korea

BAKS 2008

Posted on September 14, 2008 by John P. DiMoia / 5 Comments

     I just returned to SG this past weekend from BAKS (British Association Korean Studies) 2008, and wanted to post as the film panel in particular intersects ...

1945-1950/Colonial/English/Korea

Comparing Police Crime Statistics in the 1940s

Posted on March 27, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

Matt over at Gusts of Popular Feeling has two wonderful postings (1, 2) based on his reading of Agnes Davis Kim’s I Married a Korean. In the second postin...

1945-1950/Books and Articles/English/Korea

Common Knowledge Test Questions for Korean Police 1947

Posted on March 26, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

This week, I’m reading through some fascinating issues of the journal of the Korean National Police from 1947-1949 (民主警察). I’m finding its articles ...

1945-1950/Korea

1948.7 – Mission Accomplished

Posted on February 1, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I couldn’t help of thinking about a certain speech when I saw this headline in the July 4th, 1948 issue of the The Korean Free Press (자유신문 自由新聞). Military...

1945-1950/Film/Korea/Nationalism

1949 Banning Japanese Subtitles

Posted on February 1, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

On the second page of the June 25th issue of The Korean Free Press (자유신문 自由新聞) there is a very small article which shows how long the process of eliminating the...

1945-1950/Korea

The Stranglehold of Foreign Films in Korea 1948

Posted on January 25, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

The impact of foreign films on the Korean movie industry is frequently addressed in the Korean media. The Korean government, media, and the industry itself have...

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