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Changwon Office of Education Collects and Uncovers Records from the Japanese Colonial Period
Online Exhibition through Changwon Education History Hall Website to Commemorate Liberation Day (August 15)

The staff room of Masan Public Elementary School in 1938. [Image source: Changwon Office of Education]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kang Sharon] Changwon Office of Education announced on the 11th that it will excavate records from the Japanese colonial period held by schools in the district in celebration of Liberation Day and disclose the contents through the Changwon Education History Hall website.

The disclosed records are the result of collecting and analyzing related records since June this year by forming a TF for collecting and utilizing independence movement records in the Changwon area.

Starting with this disclosure, the Changwon Office of Education plans to continue to discover and utilize related records in the future.

The disclosed records include the school registers of independence activists from Jindong Elementary School, Seongho Elementary School, and Gyeonghwa Elementary School, providing a glimpse into the curriculum and childhood of independence activists at that time.

In addition, records from the Japanese colonial period of the schools from which the independence activists graduated were disclosed, allowing insight into the bleak history of education, students' lives, and the oppression and exploitation by the Japanese colonial government at that time.

Superintendent Jeong Woo-seok said, “We will strive to preserve and utilize the records from the Japanese colonial period held by schools,” and added, “I hope this opportunity to access such historical records will help honor the spirit and will of the independence activists.”

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