Today's Story 1. Desire for a frequent nation: birth and downfall of Korean Empire

Good Evening. It's Now We Know, which will empower your current affairs and common sense. [Today's Story] We start a new series. Did you know that 100 years ago today was the day when the armies of the Korean Empire were disbanded by Japan? Find out about the birth and fall of the Korean Empire with Nawi no!

1. Frequent desire for the country: The birth and fall of the Korean empire
   The Korean Empire was first established in 1897 and was destroyed by Japan in 1910. At the time when the Korean Empire was first established, the Korean peninsula had virtually ceased its role as the Eumi Incident and the Aegwanpa River at the end of the 19th century. The people were expressing their desire to build a country that was free from the power of foreign powers, and the independent society, which was a civil society organization of the day, demanded the ending of the Kojong.
   In 1897, Gojong decided to return to Gyeongungung Palace and build a new nation. Praying in heaven and proclaiming the establishment of the Korean Empire. I am writing "empire" and declaring my intention to raise the prestige of a country that has fallen until it falls.

Portrait of the last king of Joseon, Kojong (1852-1919)

Until the Korean Empire was established, the independent association and the supporters gathered together. Then we have to divide by disagreement about the form of government of the Korean empire. The Independent Association insisted on British constitutional monarchy, and the opposing camp claimed a total monarchy. Kojong supports the foundation of the empire formed by gathering the wealthy people of the time, disbanding the independent association, and choosing the monarchy system.

So the rulers came to power, proclaiming the Constitution of 1899, the third year of Yangmu, and expressing the absolute power of the emperor. Then it is going to be decided on the fate of the Korean empire. It's the Russo-Japanese War that broke out in 1904, eight years after the war. Russia and Japan waged war against the hegemony of the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria, and the result was Japan's victory.

The Treaty of Portsmouth, which was concluded after the end of the Russo - Japanese War, is a prison for foreigners of the Korean Empire. The Portsmouth treaty contained that "Russia acknowledges the political and military intervention of Japan on the Korean peninsula."
Officials from the United States, Russia and Japan gathered in Portsmouth

In fact, Japan has been working underwater to gulp down the empire during the Russo - Japanese War. During the war, I signed the first Korea-Japan agreement, so I hired one Japanese person as the financial and foreign affairs adviser of the Korean Empire. And then I asked them to do it before I started running the policy. After that, I will win the Russo - Japanese War and force me to sign the 2nd Korea - Japan Treaty of Friendship Treaty. It was a full-fledged attempt to deprive foreign diplomacy and make Japan a tributary.
Of course, the people rebelled. Jang Ji-yeon's "Seil Barking Daegok" in the famous Hwangseong Newspaper also came out at this time. This is also a touching event. At that time, there was a campaign to compensate the government for the repayment of the loans that the Japanese provided to deprive the Korean Empire of economic power. Of course, Japan failed to interfere.

Gojong is trying to bring back the destiny of a country that is going to a catastrophe. At that time, he sent a special envoy to The Hague, where the peace conference is being held at the time, so that the Treaty of Friendship is an unfair treaty under Japanese coercion. In this case, Japan presses Kojong's abdication, and eventually obedience takes its place.

Obedience is in the air, Japan concludes a Korea-Japan agreement, conducts a monetary policy of borrowing Japanese loans to the departments of the Korean empire, and forcibly dismisses the armies of the Korean empire. In the background of the army dismissal, of course, there was Japan, but as if the obedient emperor ordered the dissolution, he made a document and paid the soldiers a full rate.
Soldiers of the Imperial Armies Resistant to Japanese Army Dissolution

There was a battle for about three hours between the Japanese soldiers and the Korean soldiers who opposed the dissolution of the army. Then, there were diverse campaigns against Japanese invasion of national sovereignty. However, Japan is engaged in subversive operations in South Korea, killing soldiers and eventually putting the Korean peninsula in their hands.

In 1910, Japan asked Obeyong to officially sign the Korea-Japan Combined Treaty. But obedience did not sign this treaty which was humiliating. Instead, Prime Minister Lee Wan Yong signed at the time. So the empire is merged into Japan and it collapses.

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