The Bank of Chōsen or Bank of Joseon (Japanese: 朝鮮銀行, Korean: 조선은행), known in 1909-1911 as the Bank of Korea (Japanese: 韓國銀行, romanized: Kankoku Ginkō...

Hanseatic City of Hamburg – Hamburger Bank (1619–1875)  Korea under Japanese and American rule – Bank of Korea (1909–1950)  Manchukuo – Central Bank of Manchou...

Korea, the central bank of North Korea Bank of Korea (1909–1950), the central bank of Korea under Japanese rule, and of South Korea under American occupation...

the turn of the century. These notes were redeemable in "Japanese Currency at any of its Branches in Korea". In 1909, the Bank of Korea (1909) (韓國銀行) was...

institution in Korea under Japanese rule. It was formed in 1918 by merging six banks established under the Korean Empire. In 1950, it was renamed the Korea Industrial...

Five Eulsa Traitors (Korean: 을사 오적) refers to the five officials serving under Emperor Gojong who signed the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, which is also...

there from 1887 to 1899, and after 1909 became the Incheon of the Bank of Chōsen, then after 1950 of the Bank of Korea. It then housed various government...

The Kantō Massacre (關東大虐殺, Korean: 간토 대학살) was a mass murder in the Kantō region of Japan committed in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake...

Commercial Bank (조선상업은행, also transcribed as Joseon Sangup Bank), then in 1950 Korea Commercial Bank (한국상업은행). By the 1990s, Korea Commercial Bank was still...

Most of Korea's infrastructure built during this time was destroyed during the 1950-1953 Korean War. These conditions led to the birth of the Korean independence...

Governor-General of Chōsen (Japanese: 朝鮮総督, romanized: Chōsen Sōtoku; Korean: 조선총독, romanized: Joseon Chongdok) was the chief administrator of the Government-General...

committed by the Japanese military against the Korean residents of Gando (present-day Jiandao, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin, China), after...

Gyeongseong (Korean: 경성), was an administrative district of Korea under Japanese rule that corresponds to the present Seoul, the capital of South Korea. When...

1945, ethnic Koreans worked with the Empire of Japan. Some of these figures contributed to or benefitted from Japan's colonization of Korea, and some actively...

ethnic Korean permanent residents of Japan. The term Zainichi Korean refers only to long-term Korean residents of Japan who trace their roots to Korea under...

Basic Relations Between Japan and the Republic of Korea (Japanese: 日韓基本条約 (Nikkan Kihon Jōyaku); Korean: 한일기본조약; Hanja: 韓日基本條約; RR: Hanil gibon joyak)...

seat of the National Assembly of South Korea and housing offices of the Government of South Korea until 1950 when it was damaged during the Korean War...

was a nationwide organization in Korea formed on August 8, 1904.[citation needed] A Japanese record states the number of party members was about 800,000...

The Korean independence movement was a series of diplomatic and militant efforts to liberate Korea from Japanese rule. The movement began around the late...

troops forced hundreds of thousands of women from Australia, Burma, China, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, East Timor, New Guinea...

of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution series. Japan and South Korea negotiated a deal to facilitate this, in which Korea would not object...

Jiken) was the massacre of up to 100 Korean laborers in July 1922 who were working for the Okura zaibatsu at the construction site of a power plant on the...

Japanese Korean Army (朝鮮軍, Chōsen-gun, lit. 'Korean military') was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army that formed a garrison force in Korea under Japanese...

(Seoul), Korea, Empire of Japan that existed between 1924 and 1946. The university was seen as the preeminent educational institution in colonial Korea. Upon...

by the Bank of Chōsen. It continued to operate as a library until the 1945 liberation of Korea. Afterwards, it was succeeded by the South Korean National...

the yang at a rate of 1 won = 5 yang. In 1909, the Bank of Korea was founded in Seoul as a central bank and began issuing currency of modern type. The won...

result of several Korean attempts in 1910 to assassinate Terauchi Masatake, the Governor-General of Korea arrested over 700 Koreans, many of whom were...

Korea (Korean: 한국, romanized: Hanguk in South Korea, or 조선, Chosŏn in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula...

Hepburn: Chōsen Jingū, Korean: 조선신궁; Hanja: 朝鮮神宮) was the most important Shinto shrine during the Japanese colonial period in Korea. It was built in 1925...

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