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Treaty of Kanghwa

February 1876


Three open ports• Wonsan, Busan, Inchon


– Extra-territoriality for the Japanese


– Japan and Korea exchange diplomatic representatives


– Japan gets rights to survey Korean waters

Fukuzawa Yukichi's [exit Asia, Enter West]

March 1885


Japan should leave the ranks of the Asian nations and cast their lot with the western nations. Should not treat China and Korea special because they are neighbors, colonize them,

Kapsin Coup

December 1884


Failed three-day coup d'état which started in the late Joseon Dynasty of Korea. Pro Japanese

Itō-Li Accord

April 1885


Japan and China would consult the other nation when they were sending troops into Korea

Yangban officials

Korean military and civil elite, very exploitative in the 1880's and 1890's

Tonghak Uprising

1893-1894


peasant rebellion that caused the Sino-Japanese war because the Korean gov't asked the Qing for help and the Japanese were outraged

Kabo Reforms

1894-1896


severance of the subordinate relationship with China,


• abolishment of nepotism in government,


• restructure of government offices and their duties.

Empire of Great Han (Taehan Cheguk)

The formal declaration of the Kingdom of Yi as an Empire in 1897

Sadae

a descriptive label for bilateral foreign relations between Imperial China and Joseon dynasty Korea

Treaty of Portsmouth

September 1905


treaty ending the Russo-Japanese war

protectorate

a state that is controlled and protected by another

Resident General

Japanese governor/overseer of Korea

Yi Dynasty

imperial dynasty of Korea

Annexation of Korea

August 1910


In this treaty, Japan formally annexed Korea

Military Rule

Korea was under military rule from 1910-1919

Dark Times

•1910-1919


•Police Force


•No Free Press


•Show Trials


•Korean Elite bought off


•Land Survey: Ambiguous Legacy

March 1st Movement

1919


Over 1 million Koreans demonstrate for self determination, 50,000 are jailed and 7000 are killed by the Japanese

"Cultural Rule"

1919-1930~


The Japanese prompted by the March 1st movement instituted a series of reforms calculated to blunt over dissent and encourage cooperation in Korea

Sakuradamon Incident

January 1932


An assassination attempt against Emperor Hirohito of the Empire of Japan by a Korean independence activist, Lee Bong-chang

Ordinance 19

1939


Koreans were forced to adopt Japanese names and surrender their Korean names