[1] It was held at Gyeongbokgung, Keijō (Seoul), Korea, Empire of Japan between 12 September 1929 and 31 October 1929.

[3] Japan took over management of the former Korean royal palace Gyeongbokgung, and began reconstructing it to meet their needs.

[6] Several years before the Chōsen Exhibition, Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) ascended to the throne.

[1] The Chōsen Exhibition developed in this context, and was further intended to celebrate the nearly twenty years of colonial rule over Korea.

[7] Japanese person Dōji Nakagawa recalled in 1969 that: All of Japan participated in this event and to that end, Tokyo's expo-builders (ランカイ屋; rankaiya) headed for Keijō one after another... Office workers of decorating companies, carpenters, painters, machine craftsmen, illustrators and so on, guys from every prefecture and every company had taken a lodging in Keijō; no matter where you walked in the town, you would bump into someone you knew... Each pavilion on the site [was] almost the same as the conventional exposition format... As Keijō [had] few lodging places, we occasionally rented several private houses.

[9] Various businesses, especially the major department stores in Keijō like Mitsukoshi and Takashimaya, had booths in these pavilions.