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Other materials that recorded the Japanese colonial rule were also released today (11th). It contains scenes from the Chosun Governor General's collection of Korean ruins, artifacts, natural environment, and even the Korean people's physique. There are 38,000 pictures.

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It is a figure measuring the physique of Koreans in Hwasun, Jeonnam A man in armband looks around a woman's head and a man in military uniform measures height.

I'm recording this number right next door.

Thus, the Governor-General of Chosun took 1,300 photographs of Joseon figures by region and by occupation.

The women in Gyeongnam Geochang stare at the front with numbered tags.

People in the origin region took pictures like comparing their physique from the front and side.

It seems that Japan tried to grasp the physical characteristics of Korean people in detail. From the rituals in Gyeongju province to the mother-in-law, to the funeral procession of the Tongcheon county in Gangneung, and to the funeral of the Mayor of Hongwon, Hamnam, various photographs of Joseon were recorded.

The aerial photographs of the city of Suwon and the Japanese troops with vivid weather give us a sense of the urgency of the war.

Instead of film, I left a photo on 1.5mm thick glass, which is 38,000 glass plates.

[Kim Kyu-dong / National Museum of Korea Artifact Management Manager: It took a while to switch to digital. And since it took time to re-digitize the digitized image, it was released all this time.]

The pictures released by the National Museum of Korea are 6 million pixels and can be downloaded and used without permission.

(Video Editing: Park Ji-in, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)