[KS] History of Early Korean Emigration to Russia: Russian-Korean Negotiations in Kyonghun in 1869-1870

Bub-Joo S. Lee GKNLA bjslee at gkn-la.net
Tue Mar 9 23:03:40 EST 2004


The foregoing article has been received and posted at:

http://www.gkn-la.net/history_resources/early_kor_emig_russia_tmsimbirtseva_
1996.htm

  History of Early Korean Emigration to Russia: Russian-Korean Negotiations
in Kyonghun in 1869-1870 (English)
    a.. by Tatiana M. Simbirtseva (Moscow State University, 1996-97)
  "From December 1869-January 1879 the first Russian-Korean negotiations
were held in the border town of Kyonghun.  Although insignificant at first
glance, as they were held between the border administrations of the
South-Ussuri region and Hamgyondo Province, they played an important role in
the history of the two countries and became a precursor of serious changes
in the history of Korea.

  They were also the first negotiations between Koreans and Westerners,
although an opinion prevails that there were negotiations between Korea and
the USA in 1882. The very fact of these negotiations remains almost unknown
in Korea and completely unknown in the West.

  The main purpose of this article is to summarize the available information
and to see if it coincides with the traditional South Korean
historiographical opinion that in the 19th century Russia was invariably
aggressive towards Korea (the so-called 'theory of Russian aggression in
Korea')...."
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