Scenes from Seoul of 1938 - In Color!

This rare 16mm COLOR(Kodachrome) footage of Seoul was filmed in March 1938, by Thor Wiestlandt, a Swedish diplomat who stayed in Japan from 1936 to 1939.

It was discovered in the Film & Video Archive of Brighton University, UK in 2004.

The footage contains the scenes of two palaces in Seoul (Changgyonggung Palace and Gyeongbokgung Palace, Korean; 창경궁, 경복궁), and some rural areas and people near seoul.

Though it is quite clear that this footage is made by a man with orientalism, it is still very valuable historical document.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• 16mm
• Kodachrome
• 1938
• Seoul
• Footage
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• 기록영화
• 경복궁
• 창경궁

[spencermel]

you keep calling me adolf but i am not the one spewing racist comments.only facts about history.it was the japanese evil leaders who allied with nazi germany.you should be glad the U.S. allies won because if hitler won,right after he would have turned japan islands in to target practice and everthing would be glass.

[spencermel]

@GetTpOrDIE i state facts.you state only hateful untrue comments.i bet you would'nt talk like that to my face.i would bounce you off the concrete.you are such a coward!LOL!My name is Spencer.get it right maggot.

[INDIANAB170]

朝鮮の輝かしい奴隷制度は日帝が奪ったよｗ

これも韓国の教科書に書いておかないとねｗ

[2008venom]

@haretukossetu

Yes, peaceful, calm daily life.

Did you understand that "the dark age under Japanese rule" was just an anti-Japanese propaganda ?

[haretukossetu]

편안하고 한가로워서 안정된 평화로운 시기

[ggthcgth]

あれ？なんで民族衣装着てるの？日帝によって文化を抹殺されたん­じゃないの？

[kerokatsu1]

植民地時代も民族衣装を着ているし、子供も大人も和やかに暮らし­ているじゃないか！どこが奴隷状態だったんだ！結局は、植民地時­代が朝鮮の歴史上一番安定していたんだな。現在、韓国人同士で喧­嘩や争い事が多いから、日本を敵として民族の世論を統一させてい­るんだろう！困ったものだ。

[kreeenaky]

ベトナムもドイツも統一果たしたのにこいつらだけは・・・・。

で、相変わらず日本におんぶにだっこ・・・・。

[RyuikHan]

돌아가셨을 조상님들, 오늘의 대한 제6공화국이 얼만큼 자랑스럽고 세계를 이끌어 가는 나라가 된는지 봤으면 합니다..

[hjltfvjj]

All those children in this video are oldmen now if they are still alive.

[ScannerBoyn4c]

@chummerrr

lol ugly and shameless. although the japanese did commit war crimes, your behavior is not different from that of other racist haters.