Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Korean collaborators with Imperial Japan" in English language version.
And yet, until the late 1980s it was exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible to find any scholarly study on the chinilpa problem. Relevant records were offending passages whitewashed in the collected works or biographies of important men of letters. When the "collaborators" were indeed mentioned, they tended to be fin-de-siècle personages like Yi Wan-yong but not canonized literary figures such as Yi Kwan Ch'oe Nam-sŏn who nonetheless did lend support to the Japanese imperialists in colonial period.
And yet, until the late 1980s it was exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible to find any scholarly study on the chinilpa problem. Relevant records were offending passages whitewashed in the collected works or biographies of important men of letters. When the "collaborators" were indeed mentioned, they tended to be fin-de-siècle personages like Yi Wan-yong but not canonized literary figures such as Yi Kwan Ch'oe Nam-sŏn who nonetheless did lend support to the Japanese imperialists in colonial period.
