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Life of Albert Taylor, Who Covered Korea’s Fight for Independence, Retold in New Video

SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Seo Kyung-deok, a publicist and professor at Sungshin Women’s University, has released a video about the life of Albert Wilder Taylor (1875-1948). Albert Taylor was an American businessman and journalist responsible for telling the world about the March 1st Independence Movement and Korean efforts to gain independence from Japanese [...]

Dilkusha: How the World Learned of Korea’s Fight for Independence

SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — All Koreans know that March 1, 1919, marked the start of a nationwide independence movement against Japanese colonial rule. What most people don’t know is that an American businessman in Seoul — with the unintended help of his wife and newborn son — made sure the world found out [...]