Kim Hong-jip

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7 related events

1. 1
   1880Second Envoy Mission and A Strategy for Koreadiplomat

   Envoy Kim Hong-jip brought back from Japan the Qing diplomat Huang Zunxian’s A Strategy for Korea, which urged Korea to align with China, Japan and the United States against Russia.

2. 2
   1882Treaty of Jemulpodiplomat

   Pressing claims over the legation burned in the Imo Incident, Japan won an indemnity and the right to station legation guards in Seoul.

3. 1894 – 1896Gabo Reformleader

   A deliberative council abolished the class system and the civil service exam and overhauled government; the cabinet of Kim Hong-jip led it under Japanese pressure.

4. 3
   1894Proclamation of the Fourteen Articles (Hongbeom 14-jo)leader

   Gojong went to the royal ancestral shrine and proclaimed the Fourteen Articles setting out the course of reform — the charter of the second Gabo Reform.

5. 4
   1895 – 1896The 23 Bu and the 13 Provincesleader

   In the second Gabo Reform the eight provinces were abolished and the country divided into 23 bu; after the king’s flight to the Russian legation they were reorganized into 13 provinces, the basis of today’s provinces.

6. 5
   1895 – 1896Eulmi Reform and the Topknot Decreeleader

   The Kim Hong-jip cabinet installed after the queen’s assassination adopted the solar calendar, the era name Geonyang, smallpox vaccination and primary schools — and ordered men to cut off their topknots.

7. 6
   1896 – 1897Royal refuge at the Russian legationrelated figure

   Gojong slipped out of Gyeongbokgung with the crown prince and moved into the Russian legation, where he stayed a year and formed a pro-Russian cabinet.

People who appear alongside

• 
  Gojong1852 – 1919

  Twenty-sixth king of Joseon and first emperor of the Korean Empire

• Park Yeong-hyo1861 – 1939

  Radical reformer and son-in-law of King Cheoljong who led the Gapsin Coup with Kim Ok-gyun and headed a coalition cabinet with Kim Hong-jip in the second Gabo Reform

• Huang Zunxian1848 – 1905

  Counsellor at the Qing legation in Tokyo who wrote A Strategy for Korea and gave it to Kim Hong-jip

• Yu Gil-jun1856 – 1914

  Studied in Japan and the US after the 1881 inspection mission and the 1883 mission to America; wrote "Observations on a Journey to the West" and took part in the Gabo and Eulmi reforms

• Choe Ik-hyeon1833 – 1907

  Confucian loyalist whose memorials toppled the Daewongun and opposed opening to Japan; raised a righteous army in 1906 and died in captivity on Tsushima

Themes this person appears in

• Changes in TaxationAD 755 – 1894

  From land tax, tribute and labour to cash taxes in the Gabo Reform — burdens shifting from people and households to land

• Central Government Through the AgesAD 250 – 1899

  From the noble councils of the Three Kingdoms to the State Council, the Border Defense Council and the Gabo cabinet — how central government shifted between aristocratic consensus and royal power

• Local Administration Through the AgesAD 250 – 1896

  From the five regions of the Three Kingdoms through nine provinces, the five circuits and two frontiers and the eight provinces to the thirteen — how directly the centre came to rule the regions

• Military Systems Through the AgesAD 685 – 1907

  From the Nine Oath Banners to the Two Armies and Six Guards, the Five Commands and garrison system, the Five Army Camps and the Board of Marshals — armies rebuilt at every crisis

• The Opening of East Asia1839 – 1901

  From the Opium War to the Boxer Protocol — sixty years in which China, Japan and Korea, forced open by Western gunboats, each tried to reform and went separate ways