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
- Date
- May 29, 1959
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Media and information
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, May 29, 1959. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949006, 306-PPB-134).
Text on the object
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]
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.
