On My Way To Korea

Most of the posters in the South Korean series come from here.

This is a continuation of the South Korean propaganda series.  Click here for the table of contents.

Top: Since the Chinese Red Army entered, there’s no day without misfortune!
중공군이 들어서 액운 떠날 날이 없다!
Top Arrow: They obliterate our clean homes…
말짱한집을 날려버리고…
Next: We raise food to eat and still starve to death…
먹을 양식해 놓고도 굶어죽는 빛이오…
Departing Cart: Government quota (공출)
Next: Everyone will collapse under forced labor…
강제노역 등 쌀에 남녀노 소없이 쓰러지고…
Bag: Toil (노역)
Next: Bad infections will enter from Manchuria and all the villagers will be massacred…
못된 전염병이 만주서 들어와 온 동네가 몰살을 당하고…
Next: ??
이게대체 웬노릇인가? 두말할것없이 김일성이가 중공군을 모셔드려 잇속없는 전쟁을 자꾸 쩔기때문이다.
Bottom: Help the anticommunist forces fight with the Chinese Red Army!
중공군과 싸우는 반공유격대를 도우라!

Right: North Korean farmers, hide your rice! (북한 농민들이여 쌀을 감추라!)
Left: Don’t starve because of the communist party! (공산당 때문에 굶지말라!)

Top: Communist tyranny makes the North Korean people go deaf.
공산학정은 북한인민을 귀먹어리로 만든다
Left: The sounds of freedom (자유의 소리)
L. Under: Truth (진리), Fact (사실), Sincerity (성의), Good will (호의)
Right: Communism’s propaganda  (공산주의 선전)
R. Under: Hypocrisy (위선), propaganda (선전), fiction (허위), hatred (증오)

Left: Communists endeavor to split up Korea.
공산주의자들은 한국을 분할하려고 애쓰고 있다.
L. Arrow: Communist Army (공산군)
Right: The UN strives for Korea’s reunification.
유엔은 한국의 통일에 노력하고 있다.
R. Arrow: UN Army (유엔군)

Right: Communist China’s so-called “help”? (소위 중공의 “원조”란이것인가?)
Right Man: What, don’t have rice? Shut up and go prepare a meal!
뭐 쌀이없어? 잡소리말고어서 밥지어
Middle-Right Man: Go get chicken dishes! (닭잡아볶아!)
Middle-Left Man: Go get pork dishes (돼지도 잡아라)
Left Man: Go get blankets for tonight! (오늘밤 덮고 잘이 불마련해라!)

Finally, I’ll show you some first-hand posters from my relative which I have never seen anywhere else.