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title: '''Japan''s pro-communist policy: let us smash it!'' (日本의容共政策을粉碎하자): school banners at a rally, South Korea'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/smash-japans-yonggong-policy-rally-1955/
description: 'Uniformed students hold a long banner in mixed Chinese characters and Hangul reading ''Japan''s pro-communist policy: let us smash it!'', with the school…'
section: Collection
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# 'Japan's pro-communist policy: let us smash it!' (日本의容共政策을粉碎하자): school banners at a rally, South Korea

Uniformed students hold a long banner in mixed Chinese characters and Hangul reading 'Japan's pro-communist policy: let us smash it!', with the school name 'Kyonggi High School' beneath, while a second school's flag flies above and Korean flags fill the crowd. The banner attaches the loaded label 'pro-communist' (yonggong, accommodating communism) to another country's policy and pairs it with a verb of destruction.

- **Date:** May 23, 1955
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** Student contingents (Kyonggi High School and a technical high school) at a rally 'against Japan's pro-communist policy'; photograph held by the Korea Institute of Public Policy Broadcasting (KTV)
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [South Korea](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=south-korea)
- **Medium:** [Photograph](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=photograph)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Rhee Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=rhee-government)
- **Leader:** [Syngman Rhee](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=syngman-rhee)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Theme:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Event:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=cold-war)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Korea Institute of Public Policy Broadcasting via Gongu Madang)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%EC%9D%BC%EB%B3%B8_%EC%9A%A9%EA%B3%B5%EC%A0%95%EC%B1%85_%EB%B0%98%EB%8C%80_%EA%B6%90%EA%B8%B0%EB%8C%80%ED%9A%8C.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Korea Open Government License Type 1 (KOGL Type 1; attribution required) Korea Institute of Public Policy Broadcasting (KTV) via Gongu Madang, KOGL Type 1

## Text on the object

Original (Korean (Hangul with Chinese characters)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
日本의容共政策을粉碎하자
京畿高等學校

[flag above:] [?]南工業高等學校
```

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

```
Let us smash Japan's pro-communist policy!
Kyonggi High School

[flag above:] [?]-nam Technical High School
```

The first character on the flag is not certain and is left as [?]. Smaller flags and armbands in the crowd carry text that is illegible.

[← Bỏ phiếu cho nhà cách mạng Ngô-Đình-Diệm (Vote for the Revolutionary Ngo Dinh Diem)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vote-for-diem-revolutionary-1955/) [Sovetskie soldaty! Russian-language appeal to Soviet troops, Budapest 1956 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hungarian-youth-appeal-soviet-soldiers-1956/)

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