The British Community in Korea: The Colonial Period 1910–42

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with one group among Korea's foreign community, the British, are a piece of work in progress, presented with all that is entailed by such a comment. It is envisaged as part of a longer work, on Britain and Korea, for which, over the past twenty years, various trial balloons have occasionally floated into the clear air. The foreign communities in Korea before the Pacific War were always small. As a result, the type of source material available in abundance for China and Japan is largely missing for Korea. There were no treaty port newspapers to compare with the North China Herald or the Kobe Chronicle . In the pre-colonial period, the Independent and later the Taehan Maeil Shinbo provided some account of the foreign community, especially in the latter case in its early days when it produced a bi-lingual edition. Keywords: British community; colonial period; Japan; Korea; Pacific War