Haebang News
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This is a short newsreel series from the early Korean post-liberation period. It shows scenes of daily life, politics, and reconstruction in South Korea between 1945 and 1947. Most episodes are lost, but a few survive in film archives.
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What happens
Haebang News (Korean: 해방뉴스; Hanja: 解放뉴스; lit. 'Liberation News'; alternately 해방뉴-쓰 or 해방뉴-스) was the first South Korean newsreel, which ran between 1945 and 1947. It consisted of 14 episodes (including several special episodes) that were around 9 minutes each. The series was produced by the Chosŏn Film Company, which also produced the Korean News newsreel. As of 2023, copies of four of these episodes are known to exist. All four were produced in the second half of 1946. They were discovered in 2005, in the collection of the Kobe Planet Film Archive in Japan. They have since been digitized by the Korean Film Archive, and are freely available for viewing on the Korean Movie Database. A 1947 Japanese film, Go to Liberated Korea, contains some lost footage assumed to be from Haebang News, and was discovered in 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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