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At 03:29 AM 4/17/2011, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear Koreanstudies list:<br>
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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. <br>
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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 Ky ngi-do
Yangp’y ng-gun Yongdu-ri. <br>
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I haven't had any luck with the Korea History Online system (Hanguk y ksa
ch ngbo t’onghap system), but I was wondering if anyone else had a
suggestion to where I might turn. <br>
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I have no knowledge about the murder but Koreans did treat their wives
less than slaves according to Hendrick Hamel some 240 years before. I
guess it wouldn't have been much different 240 years later: Here is the
relevant passage<br><br>
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A man can repudiate a wife, even if he begets several children by her. He
then may marry again. A woman doesn't have these privileges unless a
judge has granted her these.<br>
A man may have as many wives as he can maintain and, if he desires, go to
the whores. One woman stays in his house and does the housekeeping. The
other women live somewhere else in separate houses. Noblemen usually have
two to three women in their house, of which one is in charge of the
housekeeping. Each of these women has her own apartment, where the lord
of the house can visit them to his liking.<br>
The Koreans treat their women as slaves, whom they can repudiate for a
futility. If the man doesn't want the children, the repudiated woman has
to take them with her. No wonder this country is so densely populated.
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