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Picture of shopkeepers in Seoul playing instruments
May 11, 2021

Music Shop

In this picture from the May 1921 issue, vendors in Seoul play instruments called geomungos to entice shoppers to their music store. The issue featured a supplemental "New Map of Asia," that reflected the geopolitical changes brought by World War I.
Photograph by Interchurch World Movement, Nat Geo Image Collection
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