This week, I’m reading through some fascinating issues of the journal of the Korean National Police from 1947-1949 (\u6c11\u4e3b\u8b66\u5bdf). I’m finding its articles to be really useful for my topic and was surprised to see that its pages included contributions by Horace Underwood, Kim Ku, John R. Hodge, as well as leading American military and civilian advisors to the Korean police during the US military occupation in early post-liberation Korea.<\/p>\n
There are also some some fun sections that are less directly useful to my dissertation research. Some issues have a section at the back with practice test questions for police officers (the police academy entrance exam or qualifying exam? I didn’t look closely enough to determine what the questions are for).<\/p>\n
Here are some of the test questions in the “common knowledge” (\u5e38\u8b58) section:<\/p>\n
Define the following:<\/p>\n
\u5b89\u91cd\u6839<\/a> Write the Hanja for these words and then define them:<\/p>\n \uc74c\ubaa8<\/a> (\u9670\u8b00) – As in, Communist conspiracy This week, I’m reading through some fascinating issues of the journal of the Korean National Police from 1947-1949 (\u6c11\u4e3b\u8b66\u5bdf). I’m finding its articles to be really useful for my topic and was surprised to see that its pages included contributions by Horace Underwood, Kim Ku, John R. Hodge, as well as leading American military and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[212,170,119,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1945-1950","category-books-and-articles","category-english","category-korea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1yb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6081,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/6081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u516b\u8def\u8ecd<\/a>
\n\u8caa\u5b98\u6c61\u540f – corrupt officials (UPDATED – see comments)
\n\uc794 \uc54c \ud558-\uc9c0<\/a>
\n\u8523\u4ecb\u77f3<\/a>
\n\uce74\uc774\ub85c\u6703\u8ac7<\/a>
\nUN\u7e3d\u6703<\/a>
\n\u671d\u9bae\u4e94\u5927\u5cf6 – the big islands, not the small controversial ones
\n\uce7c \ub9d1\uc2a4<\/a> <\/p>\n
\n\uc778\ub958\uc560<\/a> (\u4eba\u985e\u611b) – As in, don’t torture your suspects.
\n\uc804\ud3c9 (\u5168\u8a55 = “\u5168\u570b\u52de\u52d5\u7d44\u5408\u8a55\u8b70\u6703\uc758\u7565\u7a31\uc73c\ub85c \u4e16\u754c\u52de\u806f\uc5d0\u52a0\u5165\ud55c\u5de6\u7ffc\u52de\u52d5\u5718\u9ad4\uc758\u4e00\uc774\ub2e4”)
\n\ud6c8\ubbfc\uc815\uc74c<\/a> (\u8a13\u6c11\u6b63\u97f3)
\n\ub9ac(\uc774)\uc21c\uc2e0<\/a> (\u674e\u821c\u81e3)
\n\ubc18\ud0c1\uc6b4\ub3d9 – The anti-trusteeship movement, protesting US and Soviet trusteeship over Korea active late 1945-1948
\n\ubc30\uc740\ub9dd\ub355<\/a> (\u80cc\u6069\u5984\u5fb7<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"