Reading Korean history, culture in early magazines
(WorldNews South Korea)

A cover of The Korea Magazine/ Courtesy of Steven Shields By Steven L. Shields (slshields@gmail.com} As we in Korea are hunkering down during the current health crisis, the Royal Asiatic Society-Korea Branch (RASKB) has made available an electronic version of The Korea Magazine (1917-19) for your reading enjoyment. James Scarth Gale, the publisher, was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary educator who arrived in Korea in 1888. Unlike the more general nature of the earlier periodicals, The Korea Magazine was billed as a missionary monthly. Reading some of Gale`s comments in the final edition of the magazine, it seems clear that freedom of the press was severely restricted by the Japanese...