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title: Exhibits poster, USIS Presents (Korean poster distributed in Seoul)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exhibits-poster-usis-presents-korean-seoul-1959/
description: 'A blank template poster in Korean and English: a large empty white panel, headed ''U.S.I.S. Presents'', is framed by blue line drawings of crowds at a mobile'
section: Collection
---

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# Exhibits poster, USIS Presents (Korean poster distributed in Seoul)

A blank template poster in Korean and English: a large empty white panel, headed 'U.S.I.S. Presents', is framed by blue line drawings of crowds at a mobile film van, a radio or VOA microphone, a lecture, art and photograph exhibitions and a television set. The panel was left open for a local post to add an event. The tell is bandwagon, with crowded audiences shown as the normal response to U.S. Information Service programmes.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (English and Korean) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
U.S.I.S. Presents
미
국
공
보
원
제
공

In-picture lettering: USIS MOTION PICTURES SERVICE; VOA; [illegible small Korean and English labels]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
U.S.I.S. Presents. (Korean, read vertically:) Provided by the U.S. Information Service.
```

The Korean is set vertically, one syllable per line. Small lettering inside the line drawings is mostly illegible.

[← Free World Pictorial poster, Vol. 4 No. 8 (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/free-world-pictorial-vol4-no8-chinese-taipei-1959/) [To Build the Nation photo poster (Lao poster distributed in Asia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/to-build-the-nation-photo-poster-lao-1959/)

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