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Colonial Cinema:

• Introduced beinging of the 20th century

• Korean film industry begins in the mid-1900’s

• Silent films; sound films introduced in the 1930’s

• Pyonsa 변사!" silent mo#ie li#e narrator$ %&o#ie teller' • The General's Son 장군의 아들 , Im Kwon Taek, 1990

• (ould not e)*ress anti-+a*anese,anti-colonialism ideals

  Collaboration:

•  %he continuing e)ercise of *o.er under the *ressure

*roduced by the *resence of an occu*ying *o.er' /enri

ethlefsonon$ Denmark and the German Occupation

• (ollaborators" i K.ang-Su 192-1940!$ un (hi-ho 156-

1964!

  War Mobilization, 1932-1945

• 7ot a relationshi* of e8uals• system of mobili:ation utili:ed entire resources of the

nation

• ots of *ro*aganda films sho.n in cinema$ +a*an$ and in the

countryside

• Pro*aganda film"

o &obili:ed countryside to hel* the .ar effort

o Incor*oration of Shinto shrines attem*t to incor*orate

+a*anese culture into Korea and unify the t.o nations

o (lothing" mainly Korean clothing; an attem*t to mae

+a*anese Korean through food and dress but hard toenforce

o istincti#e cultural as*ect to Korea and the *rocess of

assimilation .as hindered and unnatural

Korea in the +a*anese <m*ire

• 1910" the %formal' em*ire

• 1962" he .artime em*ire

• he %&anchurian Incident' 1931

o (hina had been disintegrating since 1920 or so and

there .as a ne. nationalist go#ernment but a lof the

*erih*ual areas of china .ere duner the control ofmilitary .arlords

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o (hina .as e)*anding and +a*an .anted the resources

and strategic location of &anchuria

o +a*an needs to defend itself against all bases

o mo#ement bac and forth of *eo*le and resources

o Koreans .ere still second class citi:ens in &anchuria but

still abo#e (hineseo Place of immigration of Korean

*rofessionals,businessmen,farmers

o Korea *lays a *i#otal role in &anchuria

• =y 1962 the +a*anese em*ire is enormous

o Pearl /arbor

• >reater <ast sia (o-Pros*erity S*here

o Some Koreans thought +a*anese .ere riding Korea of

<uro*eans and .esterners and .ould bring Korea intothe modern .orld

• >reater <ast sia (onference$ oyo$ 7o#ermber 1963  Naisen Ittai Policy--? @+a*an Korea Ane =ody' 

• much more integrated and assimilated

• created to address the ambi#alence bet.een Korea and +a*an

culturally

• Btili:e all material and human resources for the .ar effort

• Koreans follo. +a*anese customs and language e)clusi#ely

• <ncouraged to tae +a*anese names

o to change Korean names

• /undreds of thousands em*loyed in +a*anese factories $ coal

mines$ comfort .omen$ agriculture$ etcC

• Koreans .ere allo.ed to #olunteer for the +a*anese army

in193

o because as the .ar got larger Koreans became

conscri*ted out of necessity

  Intensifyin War Mobilization, 193!- "isa##earance of

ne$tral s#ace

• Dorers" 1939 7ational abor &obili:ation a. mobili:ed

some 4 million +oreans o#er 500$00 sent to +a*an

• Soilders" Koreans able to enlist from 193$ conscri*ted from

1963C A#er 100$000 Eoined

• Domen mobili:ed as nurses$ factory orers$ and *erha*s

10$000 %comfort .omen' Name change ordinance, 1939: Koreans “invited” to take Japanesenames