Statistics available from the Korea website http://kosis.kr/ --Example: The literacy rate in colonial Korea, according to statistics, was geographically very uneven. In 1930, the national average was 49% for men and 11% for women (age 12 and above). In Seoul, however, 80% of men and 44% of women could read and write Korean, and in P'yongyang 83% of men and 40% of women. Plus, about 53% of men and 15% of women in Seoul were bilingual. The most comprehensive compilation of statistics for colonial Korea in English, still, is Andrew Grajdanzev's Modern Korea. Here is a Google Books link: http://books.google.com/books?id=5jp8-KKy6eAC&dq=modern+korea&source=gbs_navlinks_s Sunday, March 14, 2010all articles from Korean newspapers
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