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title: 공산당도배들이 한국에 들어오기전에는... (Before the Communists Came to Korea...), leaflet 1321
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-command-leaflet-1321-confucian-scholar-1952/
description: Two panels of a Korean-language leaflet. One shows a bearded scholar in a horsehair hat teaching students beneath hanging scrolls of Confucian virtue…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Cartoon of an elderly man forced to carry a heavy load by a caricatured leader figure. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![공산당도배들이 한국에 들어오기전에는... (Before the Communists Came to Korea...), leaflet 1321](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/un-command-leaflet-1321-confucian-scholar-1952.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/un-command-leaflet-1321-confucian-scholar-1952.jpg)

# 공산당도배들이 한국에 들어오기전에는... (Before the Communists Came to Korea...), leaflet 1321

Two panels of a Korean-language leaflet. One shows a bearded scholar in a horsehair hat teaching students beneath hanging scrolls of Confucian virtue words (courtesy, benevolence and righteousness); the other shows the same old man without his hat, bent under a huge A-frame load while a stout, cigarette-smoking man orders him to work and his books lie discarded. The tell is the virtue-word backdrop set against a before-and-after scene that assigns the loss to one party.

## Text on the object

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

```
[Left panel, speech bubble:] 일이나 해, 지금세상에는 인도니 예의니 은거생할같은 한수작은 소용없어 알겠지?
[Left panel, lower margin:] 1321

[Right panel, caption above:] 공산당도배들이 한국에 들어오기전에는 한국은 동방예의지국으로 알려진 나라다. 우리는 잃었든 우리 선조의 예의와 도덕을 회복시켜 자손만대에 물려주자
[Right panel, hanging scrolls, left to right:] 三綱 / 禮 / 仁義
[Right panel, lower margin:] 1321
```

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

```
[Left] Get to work. In today's world, talk of humanity and courtesy and that sort of hermit-life [unclear] nonsense is no use. Understood? [Right] Before the Communist gang came into Korea, Korea was a country known as the courteous nation of the East. Let us recover the courtesy and morals of our ancestors that we lost, and hand them down to our descendants for ten thousand generations. [Scrolls] Three bonds / Courtesy / Benevolence and righteousness.
```

Photocopy-quality scan. 은거생할같은 and 한수작은 are transcribed as printed or as best seen; 한수작 is probably 헛수작 ('nonsense') and 생할 probably 생활, so the translation of the left bubble is tentative. The first scroll character pair is read as 三綱 with moderate confidence. The right panel is described in the cited paper as the front of the leaflet.

[← 中共土改真相 大陸農民厄運 (The Real Story of Red China's Land Reform: Misfortune of the Mainland Peasants), U.S. photo poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/real-story-red-china-land-reform-usia-poster-1952/) [지게나 마차로 B-29와 젯트기에 대항이 되겠는가! (Can A-Frames and Carts Stand Against B-29s and Jets?), leaflet 8274 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-command-leaflet-8274-cart-vs-b29-1952/)

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