Lives of Koreans
Under Japanese colonial rule, Koreans were influenced by Japan in every corner of their lives. The Japanese tried to Japanize Korean industry and the Korean people’s lives under the name of civilization and reform. As a result, new agricultural and fishing methods were introduced. But Koreans maintained their existing social networks and traditional culture in their everyday lives, even while accepting modernization.
Production Activities
- Enforced cooperative buying of 『Punggu』, an improved farming tool (Uiseong, 1917).
- Women picking grit from polished rice (Daegu)
- Teaching the production of straw ropes and bags as part of a program supported by the poverty relief fund (Gyeongsan, 1917)
- An abundant harvest of herrings in Pohang (city), Gyeongsangbuk-do (province)
- Fishing herrings with ground nets (Yeongilman)
- A pile of herrings
- A shipment of herrings at Pohang Station
Markets
- Scene at a market
- On market day
- Namdaemun market, Seoul
- Seomun market, Daegu
- Seomun market, Daegu
- Hamheung market
- Hamheung cattle market
- Hamheung cattle market
- Cheongju cattle market and Cheongju market
- Namdaemun market, Gaeseong
- A market day in Jochiwon (Market for straw bags)
- Daejeon market
- Daejeon market
- Jungang-dong Lower Market in Ganggyeong (town), Nonsan (city), Chungcheongnam-do (province)
- The first fish market in Wonsan
Customs
- Large game of tug-of-war (1) (Daegu, March 19th, 1922)
- Large game of tug-of-war (2) (Daegu, March 19th, 1922)
- A child dressing up for New Year
- Students competing in 『ssireum』 (Korean traditional wrestling)
- Women doing laundry in a stream
- Hot sand bath on a summers day to heal stroke and neuralgia
- Women doing laundry through a hole in the ice in the winter
- Collecting ice from the Hangang
- Old man making and selling pots
- Old men seeing the view from a mountain