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Correspondence, manuscripts, speeches, documents, news releases, printed materials, audio recordings, and motion picture film. Of interest in the correspondence are letters from John Foster Dulles, Lieut. Gen. John R. Hodge and Maj. Gen. Archer L. Lerch, the first two U.S. military governors of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Kim Il Sung. His correspondence deals mainly with the issue of reunification. The manuscript series includes articles and speeches by Kim as well as unpublished manuscripts by others assigned to him. The documents are mainly those related to the Korean Affairs Institute. The press clippings and printed materials cover Korean problems from 1945 to 1975 and include Korean language newspapers and periodicals. Thera are also some books and pamphlets from his library, including printed volumes of Korean government documents and other books on Korea from the first two decades of the twentieth century, six electrical transcriptions of radio programs in which Kim was interviewed, and one motion picture film "Liberation of Korea."
Collection is arranged in 4 series, with an additional series on the 2009 addition.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Yong-jeung Kim papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Additional archives related to Yong-jeung Kim can be found in the Harvard University Archives. For more information about his life, see the Korean Alumni Biographies Project by the Korea Institute at Harvard Univerity.
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/koreanalumnibiographiesproject/people/yong-jeung-kim
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Homer B. Hulbert: Echoes of the Orient; a memoir of life in the Far East" is on: microfilm, as is his untitled manuscript on Japan. #94-2007-1; 94-2030-3
Papers: Source of acquisition--Mrs Mary Kim. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--11/30/1989.
Printed volume: Source of acquisition--Kim, Ki-seok. Address--Korean Educational Archives. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--07/--/1994. Accession number--94-07.
Microfilm of Hulbert memoir: Method of acquisition--Addition; Date of acquisition--1994. Accession number--M-1994.
Gift of Mary Ann Kim, 1989.
Gift of Ki-seok Kim, 1994.
Gift of Marilyn Kim, 2009. Accession 2009-2010-M002.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Processed 09/07/1990. 2009 addition processed by Yingwen Huang, 2022.
Printed volume Processed HR 10/05/1994.
Microfilm of Hulbert memoir Processed HR 12/22/1994.
2009-07-17 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Kim, Yong-jeung (김용중, 金龍中, 1898-1975) was a crusader for the reunification of North and South Korea and the founder and president of the Korean Affairs Institute, Washington, D.C., 1943-1975, a lobbying organization dedicated to the reunification of Korea.
Yong-jeung Kim was born in Keum San, North Chulla province, Korea on April 2, 1898. He left Korea in 1916 under the Japanese occupation, crossing borders heading to Manchuria, Shanghai, and arrived in San Francisco. At the age of 22, Kim attended grammar school in San Francisco. He studied political science at Harvard University, University of Southern California, Columbia University, and George Washington University. He served as a member of the Executive Committee and Director of Public Relations for the Korean National Association of North America, as well as the United Korean Committee in America from 1941 to 1943. He married Harry S. Kim (Kim, Hyung-soon)'s daughter Mary Ann Kim. The couple had two daughters.
He founded the Korean Affairs Institute in 1943, a non-profit and non-partisan organization based in Washington D.C. devoted solely to the dissemination of information about Korea to promote friendly understanding between Korea and the world. He wrote and published articles in the Voice of Korea, an organ of the Korean Affairs Institute with the support of the in-laws. He also occasionally made broadcasts to Korea for the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II and contributed to the American Annual from 1951 to 1966. He also unofficially observed UNRRA Conference at Montreal, Canada, in 1944 and the Third Session of the UN General Assembly in 1948. He was also a member of the National Press Club and the International Club of Washington. In the summer of 1947, he made a six-week survey trip to South Korea. Throughout his life, he worked for the reunification of Korea.
The Kim family moved to Reedley, California in 1973. Kim died in 1975 at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California.
For more information about his life, see the Korean Alumni Biographies Project by the Korea Institute at Harvard Univerity.
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/koreanalumnibiographiesproject/people/yong-jeung-kim
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Letter dated 1946 acknowledging acceptance of letter from Kim.
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Manuscript by Kim II Sung, sent to Yongjeung Kim dated 1965 on reunification of Korea, includes translated text.
Statement of Important Events in Korea, 24-page manuscript in Korean, 1965.
Manuscript by Kim II Sung, sent to Yongjeung Kim dated 1967 on reunification of Korea, includes translated text.
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Telegram from Kim to Syngman Rhee, 1953.
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These letters are probably a copy made later but includes a red Imperial seal. Letters renounce the treaty of 18 November 1905. The letters are all dated 22 June 1906.
(in Korean and translated into English) from the Emperor of Korea to Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia.
(in Korean and translated into English) from the Emperor of Korea to Vittorio Emanuele, King of Italy.
(Korean language section has been cut from document, only English translation available) from the Emperor of Korea to Kwang-Hsu, Emperor of China.
(in Korean and translated into English) from the Emperor of Korea to Edward VII, King of Great Britain. This is a poor quality black and white photocopy.
(in Korean and translated into English) from the Emperor of Korea to Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria.
(in Korean and translated into English) from the Emperor of Korea to Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany.
(in Korean and translated into English) from the Emperor of Korea to Emile Loubet, President of France.
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Introduction for manuscript on Korean situation written by Lattimore and sent to Kim 1944.
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Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt dated November 1951 acknowledging receipt of report Kim sent.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt dated October 1946 to Kim stating that she has forwarded materials he sent to her to the United Nations.
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Extract from questionnaire and replies between the National Assembly and President Rhee, 1951.
Invitation to the presidential inauguration of Syngman Rhee, 1948.
Communication between Kim and Syngman Rhee, 1944.
Communication between Kim and Syngman Rhee, 1940.
Statement by Syngman Rhee, 1947.
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Communications between Kim and various parties, 1940s-1970s. Note that there are letters between Kim and Hulbert in this file. Hulbert seems to have written articles that Kim had published. They seem to have been quite friendly in the 1940s. (Hulbert died in 1949.)
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Communications between Kim and various parties, 1940s - 1970s.
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1 letter and 1 outline of a book: Letter: 1949 July 19, Choy, Tae-Hyok to Kim, Yong-Jeung, on Korean unification. Outline: Author: Choy, Tae-Hyok, "A Right Way toward Rescuing the Nation and the World".
Chang, Hui-Tae (Chairman of Chosen Property Management Union) to Kim, Yong-Jeung, on Union's policies on dealing with property left by the Japanese in consultation with the US military government.
Letter from Heiji Kitani 木谷平次/Yi Pyong-son to Kim, Yong-Jeung, on request for information on studying at Indiana Butler Univerity, 1947 June 22.
Kim, Yong-Jeung, on the sudden death of Yo Un-Hyung in Korea, 1947 July 21.
Delegation form, Kim, Pyong to Korean Affairs Committeee, on unable to attend a meeting and give voting right to Kim. Yong-Jeung, 1947 July.
2 Letters: 1961 February 20, Yi, Munbong to Kim, Yong-Jeung, praising Kim's open letters to both Kim Il-Song and Chang Myon about Korean unification. 1961 February 27, Kim Yong-Jeung to Yi, Munbong, thank you reply to the above letter.
Yo, Yon-gu (child of Yo, Un-Hyung) to Kim, Yong-Jeung, thanking Kim's support for Yo, Un-Hyung deploring one-sided anti-communism policies of US military government and arguing for formation of a nationalist government.
2 Letters: October 6, no year, Yi, Munbong to Kim, Yong-Jeung, on Kim's proposal of neutralized unification of South and North Korea through a UN resolution. 1960 October 10, Kim's reply.
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Articles by Yongjeung Kim, some dated and some not. All in English. These deal with the situation in Korea and/or American foreign relations.
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Articles by Yongjeung Kim, some dated and some not. All in English. These deal with the situation in Korea and/or American foreign relations.
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Text of speeches made by Kim dated 1946 -1967 on Korean affairs.
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Text of speeches and radio broadcasts made by Kim dated 1943 - 1959 on Korean affairs and Korean-American relations.
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Text of speeches, interviews and radio broadcasts made by Kim dated 1942 - 1953 on Korean affairs and Korean-American relations.
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Letters between K.C. Cho and Kim, 1950-1962.
Manuscript entitled "I Survived Communist Seoul", undated. Authorship is not noted but in file immediately below, another copy exists noting that this was written by K.C. Cho using pseudonym of Yi Sobang.
Various copies of articles on Korea from The Economist's Foreign Report, all dated 1961.
Various manuscripts dated between 1950-1962- authorship unclear, no title. These appear to be texts transmitted (some by wire) regarding the situation in Korea. Some are obviously intended for publication either as broadcasts or published articles.
Copy of letter to Kim from Cho, January 19, 1950.
Telegrams exchanged between Kim (in Washington) and Cho (in Pusan), May 1951.
Manuscript by Pak Kyung Sook, undated, 8 pages.
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Color poster illustrating military insignia of North Korean soldiers.
5-page manuscript by Duvall Cho" entitled "Calling Mr. Chung!", no date.
Manuscript entitled "I Survived Communist Seoul" by Yi Sobang (Fictitious) - in pencil is written: (K.C. Cho).
Manuscript entitled "Havoc of War in Korea" by Bu Hwal - A Korean Writer. No date and presume this, too, by Cho.
Letter from Cho to Kim dated December 1951 accompanying manuscript describing conversation he had with Chinese communist prisoner of war in Korea.
Manuscript by Kyung Sook Pak entitled "The Mountain People", undated.
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Thesis by R.C. Hahm, Yale University.
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Unpublished manuscript that appears to be on the history of Japan's aggressive tendencies in Asia (there is no title page and it is undated, though from the content it appears to have been written in the 1930s).
Also available on microfilm.
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"ECHOES OF THE ORIENT: A Memoir of Life in the Far East" by Homer B. Hulbert F.R.G.S. [H.B.Hulbert/44 Springfield Street/Springfield, M.A.]. This is an unpublished manuscript.
Also available on microfilm.
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A Photograph depiciting the YMCA building in Seoul, Korea, showing ... cut during a demonostration on July 7th 1947. Photo by T/3 J. Duncan, 8 July, 1947.
Handwritten law document suing Japanese Minister of Justice for declaring a Korean association in Japan illegal and confiscating its properties, Showa 24 (1949) September 27.
Transcript (in Korean) of broadcast speech by Kim in Seoul, 1947 July 7, announced as a statement by the South-Korean temporary government. Content: purpose of visiting Korea, defending America's good intentions, calling for Nationlist movements.
Text of speech by Owen Lattimore ("Korea in this Crisis"), New York, 1942 May 27.
Materials related to "The Korean Liberty Conference" held in late February-early March of 1942 in Washington D.C.. Note that Yongjeung Kim was a speaker, as was Homer Hulbert (identified as Personal Adviser and Confidential Envoy of the former Emperor of Korea.)
Text of undated manuscript by Arthur C. Bunce entitled "Can Korea Be Free?" Probably from late 1940s or early 1950s.
Copy of article from the "Korea Newsletter'' dated September 15, 1974 entitled: "Anti-Japan Sentiment in South Korea."
Printed "Letter to the Congress of the United States" dated April 6, 1973 from the "Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."
Copy of press release prepared by Carl Levin Associates for the Embassy of Korea re: U.S.-Korean initiative to accelerate development in Korea, undated but probably late 1960s or early 1970s.
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Copies of various treaties between Korea and other countries dating from 1882-1883. Originals appear to come from the National Archives. Multi-page copy of handwritten treaty between the US and Chosen (Korea) is also included. Original from the National Archives.
Several copies of Korean documents (Declaration of Independence?) that are dated the 4252nd year of the Korean Empire.
Copy of Declaration of Korean Independence.
Translated copy of The Constitution of the Republic of Korea, 1948.
Mapcase 15-L-8
Removed from box 4, unrolled, flattened and moved to mapcase.
Reproduction of The Proclamation of Korean Independence, circa 1919.
Calligraphy: 懷思萬端不能成寐, by 鄭海[](정화[]?)
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Documents related to the Korean Affairs Institute, 1943-1954.
Ledger notebook containing bound documents related to the Korean Affairs Institute, 1943-1963.
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Foreign Affairs Reports, June 1955.
One Korea, a monthly journal for the ROK people's Korean Unification Movement, 1966-1967.
The Korean Student Bulletin, no.1-2, 1931.
American Korean, Vol.5:no.20, 1931 November 26.
Pictorial Korea, 1947 June 30. Featuring Kim, Yong-Jeung's visit to Korea on page 3.
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A break in the stalemate : Korea moves cautiously toward unity. Author: Korea (South). Munhwajae Kwalliguk. Publisher: Seoul : [publisher not identified], [1971?]
Kim Il Sung, on immediate political and economic policies of DPRK and some international Problems, answers to questions raised by newsmen of Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbum, January 10, 1972. The General Association of Korean residents in Japan.
Kim Il Sung, a talk with reporters of the New York Times of the United States, May 26, 1972. The General Association of Korean residents in Japan.
Japanese atrocities in Korea : reports emphasized and made convincing by Japanese propaganda. Publisher: [S. l.] : [s. n.], [ca 1921]
Pamphlet: Korea
The Korean institute of developing area studies / The Korean Institute of Developing Area Studies, Kyung Hee University. Author: 慶熙大學校後進社會問題硏究所. ; Kyunghi Taehakkyo (Seoul, Korea). Hochin Sahoe Munchê Yŏnʼguso. Publisher: 慶熙大學校後進社會問題硏究所, [Seoul], [1965]
Address of Prime Minister Il Kwon Chung of the Republic Of Korea at the National Press Club Luncheon, Washington, D.C., March 15, 1967
Open Letter to Koreans, By Fred A. Dolph
Korea Today no.155 Supplement, 1969. On the results of fulfilment of the 1968 state budget and on the 1969 state budget. Pyongyang, Korea.
The Korean manifesto against the Japanese invasion in Manchuria. The allied Korean Organizations in New York. November 25, 1931.
Translation of the memorial from Korea to the Conference on limitation of armament, petitioning that her representatives be heard ... Author: Korea. Publisher: [Place of publication not identified], [1921]
Joint manifesto of Chinese and Korean students in greater New York on the Manchurian dispute. Author: Chinese Students' League of Greater New York.; Korean Students' Association of New York. Publisher: [New York], [1931]. 5 copies.
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Author: Sŏul Taehakkyo. Hanʼguk Kyoyuk Sago.
Publisher: 서울 대학교 사범 대학 교육 연구소 韓國 教育 史庫, Sŏul T'ŭkpyŏlsi : Sŏul Taehakkyo Sabŏm Taehak Kyoyuk Yŏn'guso Han'guk Kyoyuk Sago, 1994.
Series: Charyo chʻongsŏ (Sŏul Taehakkyo. Hanʼguk Kyoyuk Sago), 1.
Gift of Ki-Seok Kim, 1994.
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Author: Soviet Union. Ministerstvo inostrannykh del. Publisher: Moscow, 1948.
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Compiled by Government-General of Chosen. Keijo (Seoul). Gift of George Kennan, March 31, 1926.
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Compiled by Government-General of Chosen. Keijo (Seoul). Gift of George Kennan, March 31, 1926.
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Compiled by Government-General of Chosen. Keijo (Seoul). Gift of George Kennan, March 31, 1926.
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Signed on cover: L. W. Chang. Publisher: 朝鮮総督府學務局, [Keijo] : Chosen sotokufu gakumukyoku.
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Author: Korea. Publisher: [Seoul] : [publisher not identified], [1921]. Signed by S. A. Pearl, Washington D.C.
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Unpublished. By Chou, Dong (M.D.) (Paul D. Choy). Author: Tong Ch'oe. Publisher: [Seoul] 1962.
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Author: Joan V UNDERWOOD. Publisher: Pp. xvii. 320. Charles E. Tuttle Co.: Rutland, Vt., Tokyo; Tokyo printed, 1954.
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Author: 민태원 閔泰瑗. Publisher: 유타 계보 협회 촬영,
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Author: [朝鮮通信社 編] ; Chōsen Tsūshinsha. Publisher: 朝鮮通信社, [Seoul] : Chōsen Tsūshinsha, 1947.
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Author: [朝鮮通信社 編] ; Chōsen Tsūshinsha. Publisher: 朝鮮通信社, [Seoul] : Chōsen Tsūshinsha
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Author: Chosŏn T'ongsinsa. Publisher: 朝鮮 通信社, Sŏul-si : Chosŏn T'ongsinsa, 1946-
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Author: 崔 海清 編. ; Hae-ch'ŏng Ch'oe Publisher: 青丘 大學 出版部, Taegu : Ch'ŏnggu Taehak Ch'ulp'anbu, Tan'gi 4291 [1958]. Inscribed by 최수식(崔壽植)
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Author: Homer B Hulbert. Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906.
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Author: 백. 김. Pong Paek. Publisher: 인문 과학사, Pyŏngyang : Inmun Kwahaksa, 1972.
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Author: Ring-Hai Seu. Publisher: Paris : Éd. Agence Korea, 1929.
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Author: 이 은상, 1903- author. 이 은상 지음. ; Ŭn-sang Yi. Publisher: 성문각, Sŏul T'ŭkpyŏlsi : Sŏngmun'gak, 1984.
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Author: [Chae]미한족련합위원회편. United Korean Committee in America. Publisher: 여강출판사, Sŏul T'ŭkpyŏlsi : Yŏgang Ch'ulp'ansa.
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Author: Pak, Il-Bong 朴一峰. Published: Yugmunsa 育文社, 1974.
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Author: United Korean Committee of America. Publisher: [Los Angeles], [Honolulu], [The United Korean committee in America], [1942]. Inscribed "with compliment of Syngman Rhee.
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Author: Korea. Publisher: 朝鮮総督府, Keijō : Chōsen Sōtokufu, Shōwa 14 [1939]
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Author: Gordon Winant Hewes; Richard N Hall; United States Board on Geographical Names. Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Board on Geographical Names, Dept. of the Interior, 1945. Series: Special publication (United States Board on Geographical Names), no. 51.
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Author: Korea (South). Oemubu. Publisher: 외무부 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), [Sŏul] : Oemubu (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Tan'gi 4289- [1956]-
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Author: 林豹編. P'yo Im; Sasŏ Ch'ulp'an Sa (Seoul, Korea). Publisher: 辭書出版社, Sŏul : Sasŏ Ch'ulp'an Sa, 4293 [1960]
Six 16 inch Electrical Transcriptions of Radio Programs on which Kim appeared, and a film reel.
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On disc: "Mr. YongJeung Kim, President Korean Affairs Institute, interviewed by Ed. Hart-special feature commentator for Washington Post's Station. WINX".
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Recording starts with a biographical sketch of Kim, Yong-Jeung and proceed with the history of yogurt, by Marshall Adams.
Interview starts with Yong-jeung Kim on how he escaped Korea in 1916 under the Japanese occupation, crossing borders heading to Manchuria, Shanghai, and arrived in San Francisco. At the age of 22, Kim attended grammar school in San Francisco. He studied political science at Harvard University, then transferred to Columbia, and then George Washington University. He talked about the history of Korea, the Japanese invasion, the Korea Affairs Institute, and US-Korea relations. (Also see Box 12 Folder 10 Interview Transcript with Marshall Adams, 1945 March 01.)
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Produced: The Seoul Motion Picture Co.
Reopening of the Joint American-Soviet Commission; Scene of Assassinating the National Leader Mr. Lyuh Woon Hyung on July 19, 1947.
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Include correspondence with Syngman Rhee.
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Also include articles, speeches, radio broadcasts
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Also include articles, speeches, radio broadcasts
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Include articles written by Kim, Yong-Jeung, published in various Newspapers and publications.
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Also include biographical data.
Audio of this interview is available in Series IV: Audio Visual Materials, "Listen Ladies", 1945 March 01.
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Articles by Yongjeung Kim, some dated and some not. All in English. These deal with the situation in Korea and/or American foreign relations.
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Articles by Yongjeung Kim, some dated and some not. All in English. These deal with the situation in Korea and/or American foreign relations.
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World Peace Through Disarming the Human Mind
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Loose pages: Portrait of the Emperor of Korea (2), Japanese Crucify the Korean Christians because they want to be free from the Japanese domination, 1919 (3)
Briefs for Korea presented to Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States and to the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate of the United States. Author: Fred A Dolph; United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee.; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] [1920?]
Extracts from the Congressional Record, March 18, 1920.
The Economic Aspects of the Manchurian Question, by Fred A. Dolph, Counsellor to the Republic of Korea.
(In English) Korean Treaty with China (1899), Great Britain (1883), France (1886), Italy (1884).
A Brief Historical sketch of Korea.
Joint manifesto of Chinese and Korean students in greater New York on the Manchurian dispute. Author: Chinese Students' League of Greater New York.; Korean Students' Association of New York. Publisher: [New York], [1931]. 2 copies, in Chinese and English.
The Korean Manifesto against the Japanese invasion in Manchuria, 2 copies, in Chinese and English.
Supplement to a Chronological Index, compiled by Horace N. Allen, 1901-1902. Presented to Henry Chung.
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Author: Korean Affairs Institute (Washington, D.C.). Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The Institute, 1943-1962.