The Girls Who Sweep Winter Away
겨울 쓸어내는 아가씨들 This photograph and caption appeared in the Jeju Sinmun Newspaper (제주신문) on February 20, 1971. It shows students from Shinseong Girls’ High School (신성여고) sweeping the streets of Jeju city as winter gave way to spring. The caption’s invocation of the Greek goddess Hygieia reflects the civic sanitation rhetoric that accompanied the…