[KS] Re: Korea Always Invaded?!

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These days I am proofreading my twenty-year old thesis for publication.  A footnote in it I wrote as follows:

   The matter of Korean relations with foreign powers, especially during the  foreign invasions, is one of the interesting facts in Korean history, which      must be studied more carefully before we draw any conclusions.
    a) Korea has never been a dominating power in the history of northeastern Asia.
    b) Korea has been forced to submit to neighboring powers many times. 
    c) However, none of the major Korean dynasties collapsed on account of foreign invasions. The T'ang troops were invited by the Silla court to destroy the two rival kingdoms, Koguryo and Paekche.
    d) A contemporary reigning king, who had resisted the foreign invader, was never displaced after his submission.
    e) After an agreement to submit had been reached, the victorious invader left Korea and the Korean dynasty continued, as before, a virtually independent state. In other words, an invader had never incorporated Korean territory as a whole within his boundaries nor had Korea ever become a province of great power until the Japanese annexation of the 20th century.
    f) Thus, the throne always remained in Korean hands, and each of the major Korean dynasties lasted a considerably long time.
      No historian has ever studied these historical facts exhaustively and no interpretations have been made. 


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> Yes, but these periods of invasion were generally "total perturbations" of 
> the socio-economic system that resulted in periods of suffering for the 
> Korean people. Suffering either as vassal states of a dominating power, or 
> total collapse of the infrastructure as in the case of the Japanese invasion.
> 
> At 09:35 AM 7/21/00 -1000, you wrote:
> >The foreign invasions that Professor Park cited are the only external 
> >incursions Korea had suffered during the span of nearly 1200 years from AD 
> >700 to, say, 1860.  How many countries in the world can claim as having 
> >enjoyed as much peace as Korea?
> >
> >
> >At 01:57 PM 7/20/2000 -1000, you wrote:



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