[KS] Tracking a murder in colonial Korea

[Joy Kim]

I'd suggest browsing old Korean newspapers of the period, available from Korea History Online (Hanguk Yoksa Chongbo Tonghap System) at: 

http://www.koreanhistory.or.kr/dirservice/total/viewDirTail.jsp?pMainClassName=CLFGCHODACGKDLOPBBJC&pSubClassName=&pSub2ClassName=&pMainClassID=KH.05.00.000&pSubClassID=&pListDisp=&pClassID=&pLevel=1&pLarDiv=TOTAL&pMidDiv=KH.05.00.000

Scroll down to the "Sinmun" section.  

Or using the Directory on the right from the Home screen, click "Yonsok Kanhaengmul."  

Joy Kim
Curator, Korean Heritage Library
East Asian Library
University of Southern California
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----- Original Message -----
From: Danny Kim <ddkim2 at wisc.edu>
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011 10:41 pm
Subject: [KS] Tracking a murder in colonial Korea
To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws

> Dear Koreanstudies list:
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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 
> Kyongi-do Yangp'yong-gun Yongdu-ri. 
> 
> I haven't had any luck with the Korea History Online system (Hanguk 
> yoksa chongbo t'onghap system), but I was wondering if anyone else 
> had a suggestion to where I might turn. 
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Danny Kim
> MA/PhD Student, East Asian History
> Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Fellow
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> ddkim2 at wisc.edu (School)
> daniel.dongwu.kim at gmail.com (Personal)
>