[100 Years Ago Today] August 15, 1926 - The Hyeonhaetan Mystery on Day Twelve and the Uproar Over a Double Suicide Without Bodies

1. On August 15, 1926, Gyeongseong was in turmoil twelve days after Yun Sim-deok and Kim U-jin threw themselves into the Hyeonhaetan, yet no bodies or truth had emerged.
2. Early on August 4, word spread that the two had jumped into the sea from the Deoksuhwan ferry on the Kanmon-Busan route, and newspapers reconstructed their movements but did not cross-check the accounts.
3. In Tokyo, Judge Datematsu resigned on August 11 amid controversy over photographs of Bak Yeol and Kaneko Fumiko, and both events left a bitter taste of the censorship era.

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