'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
- 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
- Country
- South Korea
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Rhee Government
- Leader
- Syngman Rhee
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- 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), 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
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
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.
