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<DIV>Dear Koreanstudies list:</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi. I am working on my MA thesis and could use help tracking down records
of a murder that may (or may not) have occurred around 1916. </DIV>
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<DIV>Writing in Horitsu Shinbun in 1917, Wanouchi Shinzo, a Kenpeitai stationed
in Korea, notes that Korean marriage customs are "vastly different" and gives an
example of a 52 year old man who married a 16 year old girl and eventually
killed her and her family. He notes that this massacre occurred the "year
before" (probably 1916, possibly late 1915 or early 1917), in a village (buraku)
around <SPAN
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Yangp’yǒng-gun Yongdu-ri. </SPAN></DIV>
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haven't had any luck with the Korea History Online system (Hanguk <SPAN
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chǒngbo t’onghap system), but I was wondering if anyone else had a suggestion to
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<DIV>Danny Kim<BR>MA/PhD Student, East Asian History<BR>Genevieve Gorst Herfurth
Fellow<BR>University of Wisconsin-Madison<BR><A
href="mailto:ddkim2@wisc.edu">ddkim2@wisc.edu</A> (School)<BR><A
href="mailto:daniel.dongwu.kim@gmail.com">daniel.dongwu.kim@gmail.com</A>
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