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The Beginning of Korea-Japan Annexation and the Propaganda of Japanese Imperialism as seen in Picture Postcards during the Empire of Dai Han Shin, Dong-Kyu The point of this paper is as follows. First, Japan was explicitly declaring the invasion of Korea and at the same time, propagating Japanese imperialism by using a picture postcard along with “the boom of picture postcards” around 1904to1905 of the Russo-Japanese War. Secondly, on the basis of the analysis of the designs of memorial postcards issued at that time, the results show that the full-scale of the Korea-Japan Annexation emerged through the visit of General Moore of the British Fleet to Korea dated Sep, 1906, abdication of the Crown from Emperor Gojong to Sunjong dated Jul, 1907 and 'The 3rd Korea-Japan Agreement' dated July 24, 1907. For example, in the case of General Moore's visit to Korea, although he visited Korea's territory, it was nothing more than propagating that Japan was virtually ruling Korea in a method of issuing postcards only with a picture featuring General Moore and Resident-General Ito Hirobumi and only with the British flag and Hinomaru inserted excluding Taegeukgi. Thirdly, in October 1907, postcards commemorating the visit of Yoshihito Sinno to Korea, who was the crown Prince of Meiji, were issued in various forms and kinds indicating that it was the stage of actualization of the Korea-Japan Annexation, and also aiming to propagate the rationality of Japan's domination over Korea just ahead of the Korea-Japan Annexation in 1910. This can be seen in the method of having downgrading Empire of Dai Han, while increasing the status of Japanese imperialism by using an arbitrary design in the production of picture postcards.