{"id":82372,"date":"2026-09-04T04:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekoreantoday.com\/bucheon\/2026\/09\/04\/100-years-ago-today-september-4-1926-as-seoul\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:31:42","slug":"100-years-ago-today-september-4-1926-as-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekoreantoday.com\/bucheon\/2026\/09\/04\/100-years-ago-today-september-4-1926-as-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"[100 Years Ago Today] September 4, 1926 &#8211; As Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hyat-en-dateline\">Saturday, September 4, 1926 \u00b7 Gyeongseong (Seoul), Colonial Korea<\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section hyat-en-opening\">Good evening. It&#8217;s 10:10 PM in Korea as we open tonight&#8217;s edition \u2014 the last traces of late-summer heat lingering in Gyeongseong&#8217;s afternoons, cooler air slipping through the alleys by dusk. On the old site of Gwanghwamun Gate, laborers were still hauling brick for the Japanese colonial government&#8217;s new headquarters. And in a courtroom nearby, a trial that had dragged through the entire summer showed no sign of ending.<\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202609\/2026090422496235.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h3>Korea Under Colonial Rule<\/h3>\n<p>By early September 1926, the new Government-General building rising on the former grounds of Gwanghwamun was said to be less than a month from completion. Most of the men finishing its roof and walls were day laborers, paid by the job, their names left out of any record. A short walk away, at the Gyeongseong District Court, judicial proceedings continued against students indicted on June 24 \u2014 among them Lee Seon-ho and Yu Myeon-hui \u2014 for their role in the mass &#8220;manse&#8221; (long live Korea) demonstrations that erupted on June 10, the day of Emperor Sunjong&#8217;s state funeral. Two months after their indictment, no verdict had yet been announced; a final sentencing would not come until mid-November. Press censorship, tightened after June, had not eased through the summer.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202609\/2026090422492632.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h3>East Asia in Turmoil<\/h3>\n<p>Word reaching Korea from across the sea told of a siege in central China. Chiang Kai-shek&#8217;s National Revolutionary Army, having crushed warlord forces at Tingsi Bridge and Hesheng Bridge weeks earlier, had thrown itself against the walled city of Wuchang in early September \u2014 and been thrown back with heavy losses. By September 4, the army had settled into a prolonged siege that would not end until October. Nearby, the river cities of Hankou and Hanyang remained tense, their fate still undecided.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202609\/2026090422505060.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h3>The World Stage<\/h3>\n<p>In the United States, a very different story gripped headlines. Silent-film idol Rudolph Valentino, who had died in New York on August 23 after emergency surgery, had already been mourned by tens of thousands at a Manhattan funeral. By early September his body was crossing the country by train, bound for a second funeral in Hollywood scheduled for September 7. For a colonized Korea with no cinema industry of its own yet, the scale of American celebrity mourning was a glimpse of a very different kind of public life.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202609\/202609042250983.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h3>Colonial Parallels<\/h3>\n<p>Korea&#8217;s predicament in 1926 was not unique. In India, non-cooperation campaigns against British rule were entering a new, more organized phase. In Ireland, barely four years into independence, the new Free State was still defining what sovereignty actually meant. In the Philippines, under American administration, calls for self-rule continued through petitions rather than the courtroom battles Korean students now faced. Each colony carried its resistance differently \u2014 Korea&#8217;s, in the autumn of 1926, was being carried through a courtroom.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h3>Person of the Day: A Student on Trial<\/h3>\n<p>Among the students indicted after June 10 was Lee Seon-ho, named first on the prosecutor&#8217;s list when charges were filed. What is documented is narrow but telling: he was one of roughly a dozen students formally charged under Korea&#8217;s publication and security laws for organizing leaflets and demonstrations at the funeral procession. Like his co-defendants, he spent the summer of 1926 not free, but waiting \u2014 a condition shared that year by hundreds of other young Koreans across the peninsula whose names never made it into any surviving court record.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202609\/2026090422513090.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h3>Understanding Daily Life<\/h3>\n<p>Saturday in Gyeongseong followed its own rhythm. Mornings belonged to construction crews and market porters; by afternoon, children played in the alleys near Jongno and Namdaemun-tong while shoppers moved through the market stalls. As dusk fell, lanterns lit the theater district, where silent films \u2014 narrated live by a byeonsa performer \u2014 were just beginning to take hold as popular entertainment. It was a city building itself in two directions at once: brick by brick toward a colonial administrative headquarters, and reel by reel toward a Korean cinema that would soon find its own voice.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h3>Century Mirror<\/h3>\n<p>The Government-General building being finished that September would later serve as South Korea&#8217;s own capitol and then a national museum, before being demolished in 1995 to restore Gwanghwamun and Gyeongbokgung Palace to their historical form. The nameless laborers who carried its brick left no record of their work \u2014 yet the ground they built on now carries a different history entirely, one written in stone that faces forward instead of back.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202609\/2026090422515567.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section hyat-en-closing\">The new headquarters was a month from its dedication ceremony. The courtroom, still, had no verdict. Both were waiting for an ending. 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