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Shame is a poor archivist: Korea's unfinished reckoning with the past
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- Susan Vinzents Jensen (Author)
Title
Shame is a poor archivist: Korea's unfinished reckoning with the past
Abstract
Every family edits itself. Mine had more to cut than most: a collaborator, a disappearance and a child sent abroad and quietly erased. When the actress Ha Young learned this summer that her great-grandfather's name appears on a 1916 roster of a pro-Japanese organization, I read the news from Denmark with a strange calm. My own great-great-grandfather Lee Ha-young is on Korea's official list of pro-Japanese collaborators.
Publication
The Korea Times
Date
2026-09-02
Accessed
10/26/26, 8:29 PM
Short Title
Shame is a poor archivist
Language
English
License
Transitional Justice
Extra
South Korea
Citation
Susan Vinzents Jensen. (2026, September 2). Shame is a poor archivist: Korea’s unfinished reckoning with the past. The Korea Times. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/20260902/shame-is-a-poor-archivist-koreas-unfinished-reckoning-with-the-past
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Geography
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