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	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Korea became a protectorate of Japan in 1895 when Japan forced Emperor Gojong of Korea to abdicate his throne and assassinated his wife, Empress Myeongseong of Korea Empress Min of Joseon.
		After the Invasion and de facto annexation of Korea by Japanese in 1910, the Princes and Princesses of the Imperial Family were forced to leave for Japan to be re-educated and married.
		He is a son of Gang, Prince of Korea Prince Gang of Korea, a fifth son of Gojong of Korea and currently a professor of history lecturing at Jeonju University in the Republic of Korea.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Joseon_Dynasty.html (1896 words)

	Korean Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1897, under King Gojong, the name of Korea was changed from Joseon to Daehan Jeguk, making the country an empire and Gojong its first emperor.
		In 1905 Korea became a protectorate of Japan.
		In 1907 Japan forced Gojong to abdicate in favour of his son Sunjong, who became Korea's second and last emperor.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Korean_Empire (145 words)

	Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Main article: Names of Korea In Korean, Korea is referred to as " " (조선; 朝鮮) in the North and " Han guk" (한국; 韓國) in the south.
		Korean and Chinese historian have different views on when Korea exactly became a state country as many historic books were burnt by the Japanese during their occupation of Korea which took place during the previous century.
		The Japanese attempted to exert direct influence on Korea but their failure to coerce led to the assassination of Queen Myongsong Hwanghu (1895) by Japanese mercenaries and the forced abdication of King Gojong (1907) in favour of his mentally handicapped son Sunjong.
	www.purpleuniverse.com /true_associate-Korea.html (1328 words)

	Korean Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1897, under King Gojong, the name of Korea was changed under Japanese threats and duress from Joseon to Daehan Jeguk, making the country an empire and Gojong its first emperor.
		By 1905 Korea had been invaded and occupied by Japan and was designated as a protectorate of Japan.
		In 1910 it was annexed by Japan with the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_Empire (171 words)

	Korea : QuicklyFind Info
		The publication technique of movable type was used in Korea as early as 1232 (although already invented about 200 years before in China by Bi Sheng), long before Gutenberg introduced the concept in Europe.
		In 1919, a self-professed Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was formed in Shanghai, which used the name "Republic of Korea" (Daehan Minguk), a modified form of the name "Korean Empire".
		From 108 BC on, most of Northern Korea belonged to the Chinese prefecture of Lelang, established by the Han emperor Wudi- but due to the end of the Han Dynasty a century later, Chinese rule did not last very long.
	www.quicklyfind.com /info/Korea.htm (1460 words)

	Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Note tributary status to the Chinese (Manchu, actually) from 1637 into the later 19th century (An invasion of northern Korea by the Manchu in 1627 established a vague client status - regular tribute was demanded and received as of a decade later.).
		An ephemeral state in southwest Korea, involving the provinces of North Cholla, South Cholla and part of South Kyongsang, formed during the chaotic period of Silla's collapse.
		A district in western Korea - the town of Puyo is 87 miles (140 km.) south of Seoul.
	www.hostkingdom.net /korea.html (1298 words)

	South Korea
		The history of Korea is similar to that of Japan and China in that they were relatively isolationist until interrupted by foreign powers, barring one main difference; foreign intervention upon the shores of Korea originated from Japan rather than European forces.
		Korea signed a treaty with the United States that would open Korean shores in 1882, which was followed shortly thereafter by treaties with Britain, France, and Russia.
		Korea has become the world’s leading shipbuilder, and the economy has grown to be among the most powerful in the world, giving great competition to Japan.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/jearnol2/MeijiRestoration/south_korea.htm (837 words)

	Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		thumbMap of Korea Korea is a peninsula in eastern Asia where people have lived for the past 12,000 - 15,000 years.
		The publication technique of movable type was invented in Korea in 1232 (although already invented about 200 years before in China by Bi Sheng, where it was not very successful, it can be assumed that it was invented in Korea analogically), long before Gutenberg introduced the concept in Europe.
		Separate sets of schools were built for the Japanese and the Koreans in Korea, derived from the fact that the native language was different.Elementary school for the Koreans instructed Japanese and forgotten Hangul (in 1930s, Hangul was omitted).
	www.peacelink.de /keyword/Korea.php (1525 words)

	RE: Order and prosperity in Korea increased during Japanese annexation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Korea was a tributary state of China for hundreds of years and the Mongolians were the great conquerors who ruled half the known world back in their prime (they had the biggest empire the world has ever known).
		Korea was a tributary state of China - it was not conquered by China - the Chinese had tried hard to conquer them but the Koreans had proven so troublesome unlike some other peoples, that the Chinese gave up and a deal was made.
		All the colonization of Korea did was retard the progress that was already being made by Korea and impede the ability of Koreans to prosper, all for the sake of the 'glory' of Japan.
	www.crisscross.com /jp/forum/m_385139/mpage_6/key_/tm.htm#434535 (5896 words)

	Map of Korea Korea is a peninsula peninsula in eastern Asia...
		Map of Korea Korea is a peninsula peninsula in eastern Asia...
		In 1231 1231 the Mongols Mongols invaded Korea.
		The Japanese attempted to exert direct influence on Korea but its failure to coerce led to the assassination of Queen Myongsong Hwanghu (1895) by Japanese mercenaries and the forced abdication by King Gojong Gojong(1907) to his mentally handicapped son Sunjong Sunjong.
	www.biodatabase.de /Korea (1800 words)

	Osan AB and Songtan: Short Version of Local Area History up to 1945
		The most typical Neolithic pottery in Korea is the so-called comb-pattern earthenware, which has a coniform or round base and is decorated with the distinctive incised or impressed linear patterns that give this ware its name.
		Koguryô ranged over a wild region of northeastern Korea and eastern Manchuria that was subjected to extremes of temperature and structured by towering mountain ranges, broad plains, and life-giving rivers; the highest peak, known as Paektu-san (White Head Mountain), is on the contemporary Sino-Korean border and has a beautiful, crystal-pure lake at its summit.
		During the remainder of the seventeenth century until the early nineteenth century Korea enjoyed a period of relative peace, but fear of foreign powers had become so great that she completely shut herself off from the rest of the workld.
	kalaniosullivan.com /OsanAB/OsanSongtanKorHist.html (16425 words)

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		Korea was also known for having the world's best goldsmiths during the 7th-8th centuries at which time commerce and trade routes, via land and sea routes existed, between Korea and Arabia.
		The Japanese attempted to exert direct influence on Korea but their failure to coerce led to the assassination of Queen Myongsong Hwanghu (1895) by Japanese mercenaries and the forced abdication of King Gojong(1907) in favour of his mentally handicapped son Sunjong.
		Not only was this occupation violent, it attempted to efface the culture of Korea and in its place install a sense of servility under Japanese colonialism.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Korea (1575 words)

	KOREA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While the architecture of the main shrine at Chongmyo is simple, it is the largest single surviving traditional building in Korea.
		Korea's last royal ruler was King Sunjong, the 27th king of the Choson Dynasty.
		The last tablet officially enshrined in Chongmyo was that of Queen Yun, the second wife of Sunjong, who died in 1968.
	www.koreasociety.org /KS_curriculum/HS/2/2-text/2_018.htm (394 words)

	China History Forum, online chinese history forum > Korean History in a nutshell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Korea continued to be ruled by Japan until Japan's defeat to the Allied Forces on 15 August 1945.
		Joseon was the name of Korea during most the Joseon Dynasty, which ruled from the fall of Goryeo in 1392 until the beginning of the Republic of Korea in 1919.
		In contemporary South Korea, Baekje relics are often symbolic of the local cultures of the southwest, especially in Chungnam and Jeolla.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t1898.html (17604 words)

	Wikipedia: List of Korea-related topics
		East Asian Tigers - Economy of North Korea - Economy of South Korea - Eight Provinces of Korea - Emperor Gojong of Korea - Emperor Sunjong of Korea - Era name - Eumseong-gun
		Kings: see also Rulers of Korea - King Gojong of Joseon: see Emperor Gojong of Korea - King Muryeong of Baekje - King Sejong the Great of Joseon - King Sunjong of Joseon: see Emperor Sunjong of Korea
		If it is unclear which is the family name and which the given name (for example, Nam June Paik, since Nam and Paik are both family names and there's no telltale hyphen in the name) please check under both names.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/l/li/list_of_korea_related_topics.html (900 words)

	Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Tibet, & Mongolia
		Korea is an old country, with the earliest states beginning about the time of the Late Chou Dynasty in China.
		Despite the predominant Chinese influence on Korea and the vast borrowing of Chinese vocabulary, the Korean language is unrelated to Chinese.
		The earliest important state in Korea was Old Choson, which began in the 4th century BC and endured until its conquest by the Chinese state of Yen (or Yan) around 300 BC.
	www.friesian.com /perigoku.htm (7901 words)

	Emperor Sunjong of Korea: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hangul (Hangul: hangul is the native alphabet used to write the korean language (as opposed to the...
		Sunjong (March 25, 1874–April 24, 1926) was the last emperor of the Joseon Dynasty (Joseon Dynasty: the joseon dynasty (alternatively, choson or chosun) is usually preceded with the...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) in Korea (Korea: An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Choson), ruling from 1907 until the Japanese annexation (Japanese annexation: more facts about this subject) in 1910.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/emperor_sunjong_of_korea (138 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
		Rulers of the Koryo/Goryo dynasty (from Guangjong, the second ruler of the dynasty, onward) took the title of emperor as a means of enhancing the prestige of the monarchy.
		The title was stripped in the 13th century, however, after the surrender to the Mongols and the Korean rulers were demoted to kings thereafter and, as such, vassals of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty of China.
		Following the Chinese defeat by Japan in 1895, Korea declared total independence from China (see Treaty of Shimonoseki) and King Gojong of Joseon Gojong took the title of ''Taehan Hwangje'', translated as Emperor of Greater Korea.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Emperor.html (5254 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty
		It started the de facto period of Japanese rule in Korea.
		The name Korea was abolished and the ancient name Chosen (Chinese, Chao-sien, morning freshness or morning calm) replaced it.
		The legality of the Treaty is disputed, as the Emperor of Korea, Sunjong, refused to sign the treaty as required.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Korea-Japan_Annexation_Treaty (139 words)

	Timeline South Korea
		Kim Kyung Suk (16) of Korea was hanged from a ceiling by company employees and beaten with wooden and bamboo swords for leading the strike against the steel giant.
		2000 Sep 17, In Korea a ground-breaking ceremony was held at Imjingak for a railroad to connect the capitals of North and South Korea.
		2004 Apr 14, In South Korea the 386 generation (3 for in their 30s, 8 for coming of age in the 80s, and 6 for being born in the 60s) was reported to be playing a significant role in the parliamentary elections.
	timelines.ws /countries/KOREASOUTH.HTML (11552 words)

	KOREA9
		Deposed by the Japanese on the annexation of Korea, 29
		Yu-nung, Kumgok), styled Dowager Princess In by the Japanese after 1926 (ignored in Korea), rcvd: GC of the Orders of the Auspicious Phoenix of Korea (24.1.1907), and the Precious Crown of Japan (27.8.1907), became a Buddhist nun in old age, daughter of H.E. Yun T'ak-yung [In Toku-ei], 1
		Class of the Republic of Korea (1972), etc., author: "The World is One", elder daughter of Field Marshal H.I.H. Prince Morimasa, 2
	www.4dw.net /royalark/Korea/korea9.htm (982 words)

	Maeng Collection Korea exhibit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		American interest in Korea emerged in the 19th century and was largely developed by Protestant missionaries who arrived in the 1880s.
		Japanese interests in Korea were recorded with favor by some westerners such as Arthur Diosy in The New Far East (1899) for their modernizing or deplored for their methods as the assassination of Queen Min described by the Canadian journalist F.A. McKenzie in Tragedy of Korea (1908).
		After the defeat of the Japanese in 1945, Korea was contested by communist and democratic forces eventually leading to armed conflict between the Koreans supported by China in the north and the United States in the south.
	library.csun.edu /jwakimoto/maengexhibit.html (717 words)

	List of Korea-related topics - Gurupedia
		Cuisine of Korea - Culture of Korea - Culture of North Korea
		East Sea (Sea of Japan) - Economy of North Korea - Economy of South Korea - Eight Provinces (Korea) - Emperor Gojong of Korea - Emperor Sunjong of Korea -
		Korea - Korea Bay - Korea nobility - Korean adoption - Korean Air -
	www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_korea-related_topics.htm (1811 words)

	Emperor Sunjong of Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sunjong (순종 純宗) was the last emperor the Joseon Dynasty in Korea ruling from 1907 until the country's by Japan in 1910.
		As a woman and an avid student of Asian culture and history, the tragedy of Korea's so-called Comfort Women of WWII is a subject about which I read everything I possibly can.Therese Park did an outstanding job of compiling the stories of many of these sad...
		Korea Times - San Francisco Ed = Hanguk Ilbo - Saen Puransisuko
	www.freeglossary.com /King_Sunjong_of_Joseon (88 words)

	List of Korea-related topics (1-K) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Administrative divisions: Administrative divisions of North Korea - Administrative divisions of South Korea - Administrative divisions in Gwangju; see also ISO 3166-2:KP - ISO 3166-2:KR; for historical information, see Provinces of Korea, Eight Provinces (Korea), and Special cities of Korea
		Face - Fan death - Far East University - Fifth Republic - Fighter in the Wind - Fin.
		History: History of Daegu - History of Gyeongju - History of Korea - History of North Korea - History of South Korea
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Korea-related_topics_(1-K) (702 words)

	Database error - TheBestLinks.com - King Sunjong of Joseon, Hangul, Japan, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	KOREA
		King SUNJO (Yi Kwang) 1800/1834, born 1789, married (a) Lady Kin (Queen Sun-won), born 1789, died 1857, Regent of Korea 1834/1840 and 1849/1850 and had issue.
		HIM Emperor SUNJONG [Yi Ch'ok] (Yung Hui) 1907/1910, Head of House 1910/1926, born 25th March 1874, married (amongst others)(a) HIM Empress Sunjeong, married (b) 1907, Lady Yun, born 1894, died 3rd February 1966.
		HIH Crown Prince YI UN, Head of House 1926/1970, born 21st October 1897, Crown Prince of Korea from 1907, married 28th April 1920, Nashimoto no Miya Masako Nyoo (Yi Pang-ja), born 4th November 1901, died 30th April 1989 and had issue.
	uqconnect.net /~zzhsoszy/states/asia/korea.html (845 words)

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