Life & Seoul
Jan 30, 2022
2 minutes
by PAUL LA SELLE
Korea’s 20th-century story is marked by extraordinary tumult and upheaval. Half a millennium under the sway of an East Asian world order profoundly weighted with Confucian-based societal and governmental structures came to an abrupt and formal end in 1910 when Korea was annexed by its historical enemy, Japan.
Thirty-five transformative years later, the entrenched colonial government
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