In 1917, an 11-year-old Korean girl in Gyeongbuk made the news for managing to enroll in a school for Japanese settlers

 

August 11, 1917 Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo)

An Admirable Young Korean Girl

Eleven-year-old Sin Hoja is a daughter of Korean restaurant operators in Gumi, Seonsangun in Gyeongbuk, and she has enrolled in a school for Japanese settlers. She loves to regularly socialize and play with the children of Japanese settlers. She is an unusual young girl in that she does not differ in any way from the Japanese children. Up until recently, she constantly and incessantly expressed her wishes to enroll in the school for Japanese settlers, until her parents finally relented and applied for admission at the local school union. She was approved for provisional admission to the school. However, due to her very good grades and academic excellence every school quarter, even her initially very stubborn parents came to understand the kindness of the Japanese settlers. In recent days, Hoja could be seen wearing clothes just like the everyday clothes worn by the Japanese children.

(my transcription in modern Japanese orthography)

大正六年八月十一日　京城日報

感心な鮮少女

内地人の学校に入学す慶北善山郡亀尾に飲食店を営める鮮人の娘に申好子（十一）といえるものあり。常に内地人の児童と交わり遊ぶことを好み、全く内地人と異なるところなき珍しき幼女なるが、近頃に至り頻りに内地人の学校に入学することを希望して止まざるより両親は遂にこれを承諾し、同地学校組合に申し込み、仮入学を許されたるが、成績殊の外佳良にして毎期優等ならざるなき有様なれば、これがため最初の内はさすがに頑固なりし好子の両親も漸く内地人の親切なるを了解し、最近に於いては日常内地児童同様の服装をなさしむるに至れりと。

Source: https://archive.org/details/kjnp-1917-08-11/page/n2/mode/1up

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