{"id":82158,"date":"2026-08-23T04:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekoreantoday.com\/dongjak\/2026\/08\/23\/100-years-ago-today-august-23-1926-as-summer\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:40:25","slug":"100-years-ago-today-august-23-1926-as-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekoreantoday.com\/dongjak\/2026\/08\/23\/100-years-ago-today-august-23-1926-as-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"[100 Years Ago Today] August 23, 1926 &#8211; As Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hyat-en-header\">\n<p class=\"hyat-en-date\">Monday, August 23, 1926 &middot; The Solar Term of Cheoseo &middot; Gyeongseong Edition<\/p>\n<p class=\"hyat-en-clock\">\ud83d\udd59 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) &middot; Evening Edition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section hyat-en-opening\">\n<p>Good evening. As you wind down your day, step back with us to a Monday when the Korean calendar marked Cheoseo, the solar term meaning &#8220;the heat breaks.&#8221; In colonial Gyeongseong, the air had cooled just slightly overnight. But what stopped passersby outside the gramophone shops on Jongno wasn&#8217;t the weather. It was a voice: that of soprano Yun Sim-deok, dead twenty days, still singing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202608\/2026082317183635.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h2>Korea Under Colonial Rule<\/h2>\n<p>Before dawn on August 4, 1926, Yun Sim-deok, Korea&#8217;s first professionally trained soprano, and playwright Kim Woo-jin vanished from a ferry crossing the Genkai Strait between Shimonoseki and Busan. Their bodies were never recovered. Rumors of a double love-suicide, jeongsa, swept the peninsula through the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Three days before she disappeared, Yun had recorded one final song at a studio in Osaka: &#8220;In Praise of Death,&#8221; her own Korean lyrics set to Ivanovici&#8217;s &#8220;Waves of the Danube.&#8221; That record reached Gyeongseong shops in late August &mdash; sources differ on the exact release day &mdash; and by this Monday, her voice was audible from record stalls across Jongno and Bonjeong. Curiosity mixed with grief; disapproval of the &#8220;new woman&#8221; and free love mixed with genuine mourning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202608\/2026082317196030.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h2>Colonial Parallels &amp; the Peninsula<\/h2>\n<p>A different tension held the streets around the Gyeongseong District Court. Since June 10 &mdash; the day of Emperor Sunjong&#8217;s state funeral, when students launched the June 10th Movement in a wave of independence protests &mdash; eleven defendants indicted on June 25 for violating publication and public-order laws had spent the summer under interrogation. Their trial would not open until November; August was still a season of depositions.<\/p>\n<p>Similar patterns of colonial censorship and student resistance were playing out across the empire that decade &mdash; from British India to French-ruled Vietnam &mdash; wherever a funeral, a festival, or a single printed line could become the spark for a street protest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202608\/2026082317191312.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h2>The World Stage<\/h2>\n<p>Across the Atlantic, in New York, silent-film idol Rudolph Valentino died shortly after noon this day, at age 31, from complications following emergency surgery for a ruptured ulcer. His death would trigger one of the era&#8217;s most extraordinary outpourings of public grief &mdash; riots outside the funeral home, fainting fans, rumors of suicides among his admirers.<\/p>\n<p>The day before, wire reports from Greece told of a bloodless coup: General Georgios Kondylis had ousted dictator Theodoros Pangalos. Power and fame, it seemed, could both dissolve overnight that summer &mdash; a Hollywood idol&#8217;s life, a European strongman&#8217;s regime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202608\/2026082317191957.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h2>Understanding Daily Life in Gyeongseong<\/h2>\n<p>Not every corner of the city was in mourning. The Dong-A Ilbo&#8217;s four-school baseball league &mdash; fielding alumni and students from Baejae, Jungang, Hwimun, and Kyungshin &mdash; had begun that month, and schoolyards rang with a very different kind of noise than the gramophone shops. Students walked to class in the cooler morning air; market vendors called out through midday; by dusk, the smell of dinner drifted through the alleys. As Cheoseo passed, the cicadas grew quieter, and people began talking about the coming harvest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202608\/2026082317208818.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section\">\n<h2>Century Mirror<\/h2>\n<table class=\"hyat-en-mirror-table\">\n<tr>\n<th>1926<\/th>\n<th>Category<\/th>\n<th>2026<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A gramophone record spreads shop to shop over weeks<\/td>\n<td>How a song travels<\/td>\n<td>A streaming single reaches the world in hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Speech policed under colonial publication law<\/td>\n<td>Freedom of expression<\/td>\n<td>Constitutionally protected, still fiercely contested<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Flood news arrives days late, by courier and print<\/td>\n<td>Disaster reporting<\/td>\n<td>Real-time alerts and satellite monitoring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>A century separates the pace at which Yun Sim-deok&#8217;s last song traveled from mouth to mouth and the speed at which a single today circles the globe. What hasn&#8217;t changed, perhaps, is how readily people lean on a song when grief and love collide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202608\/2026082317204064.jpg\" \/ loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hyat-en-section hyat-en-closing\">\n<p>Tomorrow, we return to August 24, 1926. As the last of the summer heat lifts from Gyeongseong&#8217;s streets &mdash; good night, and see you tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thekorean.today\/sub_read.html?uid=55716\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 18px 50px; background: linear-gradient(135deg, #11998e 0%, #38ef7d 100%); color: white; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 50px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; box-shadow: 0 5px 20px rgba(17, 153, 142, 0.4);\">\ud83d\udcf0 \uae30\uc0ac \uc6d0\ubb38 \ubcf4\uae30<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt;\uc800\uc791\uad8c\uc790 \u24d2 \ucf54\ub9ac\uc548\ud22c\ub370\uc774(The Korean Today) \ubb34\ub2e8\uc804\uc7ac \ubc0f \uc7ac\ubc30\ud3ec \uae08\uc9c0&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, August 23, 1926 &middot; The Solar Term of Cheoseo &middot; Gyeongseong Edition \ud83d\udd59 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) &middot; Evening Edition Good evening. &#8230; <a title=\"[100 Years Ago Today] August 23, 1926 &#8211; As Summer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thekoreantoday.com\/dongjak\/2026\/08\/23\/100-years-ago-today-august-23-1926-as-summer\/\" aria-label=\"[100 Years Ago Today] August 23, 1926 &#8211; As Summer\uc5d0 \ub300\ud574 \ub354 \uc790\uc138\ud788 \uc54c\uc544\ubcf4\uc138\uc694\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":-999999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thekorean.today\/imgdata\/smilestory_kr\/202608\/2026082317183635.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-82158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-alive","tag-257","resize-featured-image"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[100 Years Ago Today] August 23, 1926 - As Summer - \ucf54\ub9ac\uc548\ud22c\ub370\uc774<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Monday, August 23, 1926 &middot; The Solar Term of Cheoseo &middot; Gyeongseong Edition\ud83d\udd59 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) &middot; Evening EditionGood evening. 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