[KS] Portuguese during Hideyoshi invasion?

[Frank Hoffmann]

>... as I recently read in an article published 
>by Choe Yong-shik in Korea Herald (¿Korea 
>Times?) on May 26, 2000, mentioning the Annals 
>of the Choson Kingdom. Could that be true? Is 
>there any English translation where I could 
>check it?


The _Annals of the Chosôn Kingdom_ is a 
*multi-volume* work. After all the dynasty 
survived for 500 years. It is not translated into 
English or any other Western language. It's in 
Chinese. There is a full translation into modern 
Korean that was published in North Korea. You 
would reed to read either Chinese or Korean.

It would be useful if you could give us the link 
to the article by Ch'oe Yong-shik -- he is a 
respectable historian, and I am sure he found 
something to make such claim, and he sure would 
also give the date etc. of the entry, so that it 
would be possible to find the passage he is 
referring to. Then again, even if there is such 
an entry, I would not necessarily trust that it 
might not be a "historic" mistake since there are 
no other such sources indicating some Portuguese 
involvement. As you already pointed out, to get 
involved would have been against Portuguese 
interests at the time.

Frank


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