[KS] Jazz in Korea--Josephine Baker

[Frank Hoffmann]

Thanks Antti.
There is really nothing in that Tonga ilbo 
article that would indicate that this  is in 
Asia, or even in Korea. To the opposite, as Antti 
already pointed out, this shows Josephine Baker 
with French or maybe British soldiers.

Baker was also very prominent in East Asia, more 
so since the late 1930s. There are countless 
reports of how influential she was in Japan, 
still so during the Pacific War. And she 
"appeared" also in Korean and Japanese 
advertisements, and was a role model for the 
"Modern Girl" of the 1930s. Steven mentioned the 
magazin _Chogwang_ and Yi Hyo-sôk's short novel 
in there, in August 1936, "Kû hangguûi mam," 
where there is a scene were Baker is going to 
leave from the Korean city "C-hanggu" 
(C-Harbor)--which is of course the port city of 
Chôngjin--to Manchuria. That, however, is a just 
a novel! And the same journal had already in its 
1935 inaugural issue a mention of Josephine 
Baker, in the picture story by Kim Kyu-t'aek, 
"Modôn Simchông-chôn" (Modern Simchông Story).

Would be nice if you check your sources before starting a revolution.


Thanks.
Frank



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Frank Hoffmann
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