<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I don't have info relative to the inquiry, but it did remind me of William Shaw's book, Legal Norms in a Confucian State, and the case of the local murderer<div>who made up a folk song blaming somebody else for it. The royal review committee was suspicious because, as I recall, they said no folk songs were ever</div><div>that specific, to blame someone by name that way.</div><div><br></div><div>David McCann</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div>On Apr 16, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Danny Kim wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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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 style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Kyǒngi-do
Yangp’yǒng-gun Yongdu-ri. </span></div>
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<div><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">I
haven't had any luck with the Korea History Online system (Hanguk <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'; mso-fareast-language: KO">yǒksa
chǒngbo t’onghap system), but I was wondering if anyone else had a suggestion to
where I might turn. </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'; mso-fareast-language: KO">Thanks
for your time.</span></span></div>
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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>
(Personal)</div></div>
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