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CHAPTER 1 HISTORY-SOCIAL SCIENCE

Document G

Source : Park , Linda Sue . When My Name was Keoko . Random House , New York , 2002 .

“ That was what Tomo had been talking about . He ’ d been warning me that our metal things were about to be taken away . Maybe he thought that if we knew in advance , we could hide some things before it happened . But telling me straight out would have made him a traitor to the Japanese , his own people . He ’ d been telling me the only way he could – and I hadn ’ t understood .”

Document H Source : [ Cumings , Bruce ]. Korea ’ s Place in the Sun : A Modern History . W . W . Norton , New York , 1997 .

Among Koreans today , North and South , the mere mention of the idea that Japan somehow ‘ modernized ’ Korea , calls forth indignant denials , raw emotions , and the sense of mayhem having just been , or about to be committed …. Koreans have always thought that the benefits of this growth went entirely to Japan and that Korea would have developed rapidly without Japanese help anyway .”

Document I

Source : Lee , Ka-baik . A New History of Korea . Ilchokak Publishers , Seoul , Korea , 1984 .

“ Under the political protection of Japanese imperialism , Japanese capital investment in a wide range of industries in Korea was growing apace . War related industry in particular was established in Korea by the great zaibatsu of Mitsui , Mitsubishi and Noguchi , hand in hand with Japan ’ s war ministry .”

CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES BY NATIONALITY , 1938 UNIT : 1,000 YEN

AVERAGE CAPITAL PER COMPANY Korean Japanese Companies Companies

Textile Metal and Machinery Brewing Pharmaceutical Ceramic Flour and Rice Cleaning Processed Food Lumber and Woodworking Printing Chemical Others

Total

30,198 ( 12.3 ) 214,705 ( 87.7 )

41 . 267

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