Wonder what the little girl behind bars did to get thrown in the klink? Obviously,
the pipe-smoking old teacher-sage doesn't take any crap from his young pupils. Photo by Herbert Ponting, 1903.
OLD KOREA - LAND OF THE MORNING CALM -- Tiger Hunters in the Hills Outside of SEOUL
OLD KOREA - LAND OF THE MORNING CALM -- Shoeing a Horse at the Blacksmith's Home, SEOUL
In the past, these guys were evidently kicked clear into their neighbors yard by a horse
that didn't care to get shoes nailed into its hoofs....and there is NO WAY they will let THAT ever happen again !
1903 photograph by Herbert Ponting.
OLD KOREA - LAND OF THE MORNING CALM -- Japanese Make Sure the Koreans Know Who's in Charge !
This is Korea ca.1897-1900. Commenter idea0853 believes it is actually September 6th, 1897.
See his comment far down below. As a stereoview, the first record I can find of its being published is in 1901.
The image is tragically symbolic. A crowd of Koreans stand under the shadow of the Japanese
"Rising Sun" flag, while their own Korean National Flag is relegated to the size of a bath towel.
Although Korea has not yet been formally annexed to Japan, a series of subjugating treaties backed by military force
had allowed the Japanese to "call the shots" and "run the show", basically doing whatever they
wanted with Korea and the Koreans.
I have never seen such a graphic image demonstrating the lack of respect Japan had for any of its neighbors
in the Century leading up to WW2 -- well, except for a pile of photographs I have that show
the Japanese Military abusing the Chinese, which a National Magazine in Tokyo told me they could never
publish in Japan. "It is not good for Japanese Morale and the Nation of J
apan to know what happened in the past", I was told.
Of course, they did not have to tell me that, as I was already familiar with the so-called "History Books"
approved by the Ministry of Education during my over three decades of living there. Of course,
some of the History Books published in America for their schools are in the pits as well.
No doubt every nation (to either a LARGE or small degree) lives in some amount of corporate,
official denial about not only the present, but especially the past.
KOREA - LAND OF THE MORNING CALM -- Human "Dirt Pounders" Harden the Foundation for a New Post Office. SEOUL, 1903
KOREA - LAND OF THE MORNING CALM -- Officials of the Imperial Department of Communications. SEOUL, 1903
KOREA - LAND OF THE MORNING CALM -- Four Peace-Loving Korean Gentlemen at the Temple of the God of War. SEOUL
KOREA - LAND OF THE MORNING CALM -- Heathen, Idol-Worshipping,
Blinded-by-the-Devil, Superstitious Koreans (According to the Christian Missionaries,
that is). Near SEOUL
KOREA - LAND OF THE MORNING CALM -- Two Happy Guys Winnowing Barly in the Streets of CHEMULPO
Photo by HERBERT G. PONTING, 1903