Word: koreanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sadakichi Hartmann, eightyish, dramatist, artist, philosopher and mop-haired onetime "King of Greenwich Village"; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, son of a Korean woman and a German munitions worker, he married three times, begat 15 children, named one set after jewels, another set for flowers, was the boon companion of artistic greats, from Walt Whitman to John Barrymore...
Army man, General Kuniaki Koiso, 64. Koiso has two nicknames. He prefers to be known as the "Singing Frog"-a tribute to the way he sings old folk tunes when he has had enough sake. But he is better known as the "Korean Tiger" because of his brutalities while Governor of Korea...
Teaching quick-witted Koreans was pleasant until the Japanese seized Manchuria (1931). Then the Japs dictated what should be taught, constantly suspected "dangerous thoughts." When one faculty member preached a chapel sermon on the exodus of the Israelites, the Japanese arrested him, charged him with preaching against them by parables. At last Dr. Underwood did not even dare visit Korean homes. Whenever he did, the Japanese police carted off his hosts to jail...
...Christian missionaries have not brought the Koreans faith, Dr. Underwood claims that they have brought them education and a sense of national pride. Koreans were almost completely illiterate when the missionaries came. Korean Christians are now 90% literate, other Koreans 40%. The missionaries found literate Koreans using Chinese characters. They translated parts of the Bible into Korean characters, gradually taught Koreans to read their own tongue. Dr. Underwood also believes that Presbyterianism has shown the Korean people how democracy works...
...thing Dr. Underwood misses is his Korean hunting trips. In the winter he and his twin sons used to go into the wilds, hunt tigers and wild boars. Another Underwood hobby: early Korean naval history. In last month's Yachting Dr. Underwood has an article on a 16th Century naval battle when the Japanese attempted a Pearl Harbor on the Korean port of Fusan. The Koreans destroyed half the 500 Japanese ships...