<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"MS Mincho";
panose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Batang;
panose-1:2 3 6 0 0 1 1 1 1 1;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"\@Batang";
panose-1:2 3 6 0 0 1 1 1 1 1;}
@font-face
{font-family:"\@MS Mincho";
panose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle18
{font-family:Arial;
color:navy;}
/* Page Definitions */
@page Section1
{size:11.0in 8.5in;
margin:.7in 36.7pt .7in .5in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Hello Kwang-On,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Does that book mention my
great-grandfather Afanasii Seredin-Sabatin, who was the first European
architect in </span></font><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Korea</span></font><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Thanks George </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws [mailto:koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Kwang On Yoo<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Friday,
September 17, 2010</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>6:55 PM</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Korean Studies Discussion List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [KS] " The Story of
the Awakening and the Destruction of a Nation",</span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Korea</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>,
1866-1907</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hello Everyone, <br>
<br>
I would like to let you know that Frederick Arthur McKenzie's first book
on Korea, "The Tragedy of Korea", originally published in 1908, is
now available on Amazon.com as a reprinted edition, in addition to his
second book, "Korea's Fight for Freedom", first published in 1920.<br>
<br>
As the second book has been readily available for a quite some time, I will
just touch upon "The Tragedy of Korea". In this first book,
McKenzie introduces it as "the story of the awakening and the destruction
of a nation".<br>
<br>
His narrative starts with a 1866 incident involving American
schooner General Sherman and ends with his daring 1907 journey to the
"Righteous Army (</span></font><font face=Batang><span style='font-family:
Batang'>의병</span></font>,<font face="MS Mincho"><span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>義兵</span></font>),
covering 40 years of Korea's struggle as a party in political conflict
with an "aroused China, an ambitious Japan" and expansionist
Russia, culminating in The Eulsa Protectorate Treaty (<font face=Batang><span
style='font-family:Batang'>을사보호조약</span></font>,<font face="MS Mincho"><span
style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>乙巳保護条約</span></font>) of 1905 and the
subsequent uprising of the Righteous Army. A copy of the complete treaty is
included in the Appendices of the book. </p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
The Appendix also contains various treaties Chosun signed with foreign
powers and other Korean treaties signed between 1876-1897. Also included
is the trial record of Miura Goro (</span></font><font face="MS Mincho"><span
style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>三浦梧樓</span></font>), the then Japanese
Minister to Chosun who concocted the plan to murder Queen Min in 1895, known as
<font face=Batang><span style='font-family:Batang'>을미사</span></font><a
href="http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E4%B9%99%E6%9C%AA%E4%BA%8B%E8%AE%8A"
target="_blank" rel=nofollow><font face=Batang><span style='font-family:Batang'>변</span></font></a>(<a
href="http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E4%B9%99%E6%9C%AA%E4%BA%8B%E8%AE%8A"
target="_blank" rel=nofollow><font face="MS Mincho"><span style='font-family:
"MS Mincho"'>乙未事變</span></font></a>).<br>
<br>
McKenzie's final sentences in the book were prophetic. He said "The
future of Japan, the future of the East, and, to some extent, the future of the
world, lies in the answer to the question whether the militarists or the party
of peaceful expansion gain the upper hand in the immediate future. If the one,
then we shall have harsher rule in Korea, steadily increasing aggression in
Manchuria, growing interference with China, and in the end, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>a Titanic conflict, the end of which none can
see."</span></b> <br>
<br>
He did not live long enough (1869-1931) to witness his prophesy realized.
</p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> The only fault I found with this reprinted
edition is that it is missing 6 of 27 illustrations and the Petition
from the Koreans of Hawaii (page 311).</span></font></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
The Last Battle of the Tortoise Ship(</span></font><font face=Batang><span
style='font-family:Batang'>거북선</span></font>, <a
href="http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%EF%A4%87%E8%88%B9"><span class=hanja><font
face=Batang><span style='font-family:Batang'>龜船</span></font></span></a>)</p>
</div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I found this entry fascinating. When General Sherman
was grounded in the Daedong River, *"An ancient armored float was brought
into play, the tortoise boat, a scow mounted with cannon and protected by a
covering of sheet iron and bull hide. The front part of the armour lifted when
the shot was fired and closed immediately afterward. Even the tortoise boat
failed to injure the foreign ship." <br>
<br>
I hope you will find this book valuable too.<br>
<br>
Thank You,<br>
<br>
Kwang-On Yoo</span></font></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>