The second half of the 19th century of both Korea and Japan was the turning point of great importance. Korea came out of the Orient centered society, and the Korean values got through a great move by means of getting contact with different world of We...
The second half of the 19th century of both Korea and Japan was the turning point of great importance. Korea came out of the Orient centered society, and the Korean values got through a great move by means of getting contact with different world of Western countries. Moreover the influence of these new changes was great ranging through the concrete aspects of real lives by the challenges and effects of foreign countries.
The rapid invasion of foreign forces into Korea made Korea evoke a new sense of crisis and self-awareness. Unlike up to those times, foreign troops in Korea brought about the opportunity to change the political power, which was recognized the crisis of the whole nation, and as a result, the national awareness arose nation-wide.
Japan, opening itself to the Western great powers preceding Korea, was into the course of being colonized by the Western countries, especially the rapid invasion of English and American capatal. With the Western capitalism Japan kept practicing its plans step by step in the Asian countries inclulding Korea. The history of challenge of the Imperialism of Japan to govern Korea, in especial, would be the whole of the modem history of Japanese politics in the same period. After Meiji revolution, Japan with great expansion of power focused on pursuing the only purpose of colonizing Korea. Any of its both internal and external activities which we could get hold of in the process of the historical events was developed to achieve the purpose.
This paper, under the great title of the study on the Korean-Japanese history of mutual negotiation in the modern times, considered the two central stems; one is Japanese recognition against Korea from the age of the late of markbu(幕府) to the period of Meiji reign, and the other is the mutual history between these two countries by way of Kanghwado Treaty in 1876 and Imogunlan in 1882.