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Korean Art & History: History’s first 만화 (1908)
판각가 미상 최초의 목판만화삽화, 유길준의 감각 노동야학독본, 1908 | First woodcut manhwa by an unknown painter, printed in Gamgak Nodong Yahak Dokbon, 1908
Korean transcription:
노동야학회 고문 (勞動夜學會 顧問)
유길준씨 (兪吉濬氏), 노동자 (勞動者)
고문의 말씀: 여보세요, 나라를 위해서 일해야합니다. 또 사람은 배워야 합니다.
노동자의 대답: 네, 고맙습니다. 그리하겠습니다.
English translation:
Adviser of Workers’ Evening School Council (勞動夜學會 顧問)
Mr. Yu Gil-jun (兪吉濬氏), a worker (勞動者)
The adviser says: Hello, we have to work for our country and people have to learn.
The worker says: Yes, thanks. I will do that.
Korean art: 이쾌대 (1913-1965)
“Born in 1913, Lee Quede (1913-1965) is a Korean painter who spent most of his life witnessing the struggle of his country, first against colonial rule, then against itself. […]”