Korea’s Independence Movement Had Women, Too
South Korea commemorates each year the independence uprising of March 1, 1919. But women fighters are often ignored in collective memory.
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Haebangchon’s Forgotten Past: A Stairway, A Shrine and The War Dead
There’s a nondescript stairway on the outskirts of ‘the hip Haebangchon.’ The steps once led to a Shinto shrine for 7,000 spirits of Japan’s war dead.