Industrialization and modernization that began in the early 1960s changed everything in Korea. Old buildings have disappeared. Rice fields have turned into lots for factories and apartment complex buildings. Even hundred-year-old customs have given room to new ones. But some tough memories have grown stronger and stronger in the mind of a man who spent his childhood in the 1930s. In his book, the author and painter Kim Man-hee expresses his experiences between the 1930s and the 1950s in words and pictures. The book covers daily life, farming, dealers, craftsmen, ceremonial occasions, games and transportation with over 130 beautiful pictures. It's really amusing to see how those people in the recent past lived. On the other hand, memories of the Japanese colonial period provide clues to how tough it was to lead life here. At the peak of World War II, called "The Pacific War" here, the Japanese colonial government prohibited grains in one part of the country from moving into other parts of the country. Everybody in the train station was searched. Some lucky city-dwellers could go to the public bath, but they were not allowed to stay over half an hour. If they did, the Japanese owner would open the door, roughly shake a bell, and yell. Those who allege the Japanese colonialization was good for the country's modernization will have some second thoughts after reading the book.

Preface - 4 
Foreword - 5 
Contents - 6 
Pictures of Every Facet of Life - 8 

Daily Life 
Couple Outing - 12 
Outing on a Market Day - 13 
Cotton Cloth Weaving - 14 
Needlework - 16 
Nampodeung - 19 
Ironing - 20 
Pung-gu - 22 
Warm Floor - 23 
Public Well - 24 
Water Purifying Facility - 25 
Cleaning the Inside of a Well -26 
#-Frame Well - 27 
Public Water Supply - 28 
Back Bathing - 29 
Public Bath - 30 
Time Limit of a Public Bath - 31 
Students' Conveyance of a Dung Tub - 32 
Splitting Firewood - 33 
Old Days of Poverty - 34 
Riding a Bicycle Together - 36 
Students' Dormitory - 37 
Democratic Police Stand Solidly - 38 
Dorong-i - 39 
Crossing a Brook - 40 
Fleeing Chickens - 41 
Ox' Fleeing - 42 
Japanese Stragglers - 43 
Prohibition Command on Taking Out Grains - 44 
Air-raid Alarm - 45 
Slaughtering Dogs - 46 
Low Altitude Scouting of American Flights - 47 
Making an Air Raid Shelter - 48 

Farming 
Rice Planting - 50 
Irrigating a Rice Paddy - 51 
Threshing - 52 
Running Grain Blower - 53 
Harvested Rice - 54 
Rice Storing - 55 
Plowing by an Ox - 56 
Flailing - 58 
Grinding a Sickle on a Whetstone - 60 
Returning Home after Field Wo가 - 61 
Village Tour of Farmer's Folk Band - 62 
Midday Napping - 65 
Lunch Time - 66 
Changing a Thatch - 67 
Cooperation - 68 

Dealers 
Yeot Seller - 70 
Hoddeok Shop - 73 
Salted Shrimp Seller - 74 
Ice Cake Shop - 76 
Bicycle Shop - 77 
Haircut - 78 
Firewood Seller - 80 
Folding Screen Seller - 81 
Jangddolbaegi - 82 
Rice Shop - 83 
Scaling - 84 
Bokddeokbang - 85 
Bangmul-jangsu - 86 
Dubu-jangsu - 88 

Craftsmen 
Carpenter - 90 
Meoktong - 91 
Mijang-i - 93 
Herb Clinic - 94 
Tinker - 95 
Shoe Repairman - 96 

Ceremonial Occasions 
Wedding Ceremony - 98 
Memorial Service - 103 
Ceremonial Feast - 106 

Games 
Seasawing & Kite Flying - 108 
Crab Catching -112 
Fishing - 113 
Juibulnori - 114 
Guleongsoe - 115 
Sulaejabggi - 116 
Horse-riding Game - 117 
Yunnori - 118 
Sledding - 120 
Dangerous Game - 122 

Transportation 
Electric Trolley Turnabout - 124 
Lumber Conveyance - 125 
Junction of the Gyeongbu Line and Honam Line - 126 
Overly Filled-up Train - 127 
Trackman - 128 
Railway Bridge cut by a Flood - 129 
Jochiwon Station - 130 
Old Daejeon Station - 131 
Daejeon Station Compound - 132 
Charcoal Car - 133 
Truck with a Puncture - 134 
With Freight - 135 
Turnabout of an Engine - 136 
Post-Liberation Transportation in Seoul - 137 
Horse Driver - 138 
Handy Moving - 139 
Earth Conveyance - 140 
Returning Home - 141