[KS] Re: collaborators

Frank Hoffmann hoffmann at fas.harvard.edu
Thu Aug 26 14:08:13 EDT 1999


Very interesting indeed! So finally 10,000 historians are going to find out
that Korea was a colonized country for some time. 10,000 historians, 3,000
people, 300 historians, 3 billion Wôn -- fairy-tale qualities, no doubt.

Frank


>08/23/1999
>    The Korea Herald
>
> The Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities said
> last week that over 10,000 professors of 116 universities and colleges
> across the country have signed up for publication of a "who's who of
> pro-Japanese collaborators." (...) The institute plans to publish an
> encyclopedia of some 3,000 people who
> assisted the Japanese during the colonial period in 10 volumes over the
> next three years. About 300 historians will work on the project which
> will cost three billion won.
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