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Person1840 – 1900
Kuroda Kiyotaka
Japanese plenipotentiary for the Treaty of Ganghwa, later prime minister
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Joseon's first modern treaty, signed with Japan on 27 February 1876. It opened Busan and two other ports and contained unequal terms.
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Sin Heon1810 – 1884Joseon envoy who signed the Treaty of Ganghwa and the treaty with the United States
Themes this person appears in
- 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
- Ganghwa Island1000 BC – 2011
From dolmens to the Treaty of Ganghwa — Goryeo’s refuge capital and the stage of Korea’s opening, the island the kingdom fell back on in every crisis
- Busan1443 – 1979
Port of the Japan House and of the 1876 opening — Korea’s gateway to Japan, and wartime capital in the Korean War