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- ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 5103, 9 February 1944
- ↑ 점심은 부산 돼지국밥·저녁은 강릉서 회…'동해선 시대' 활짝
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