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ESSAYS
THE SCRAMBLE AMONG THE POWERS FOR CONCESSIONS
Document K
Source: The Protectorate Treaty (fol-
Year Country Concession
lowed the Russo-Japanese War), 1905.
Article 1. The Government of
1883 Japan
Laying of Pusan-Nagasaki undersea cable
Japan,
through the Department of For-
1885 China Construction of Inch’ ŏn-Ŭiju telegraph line
eign Affairs at Tokyo, will hereafter
Japan
Construction of Pusan-Inch’ ŏn telegraph line
have control and direction of the exter-
1886 Japan
Permission to establish coaling station on Yŏngdo, off Pusan
nal relations and affairs of Corea, and
1888 Japan
Coastal fishing rights
the diplomatic and consular represen-
1891 Japan
Permission to establish coaling station on Wŏlmi Island, off Inch’ ŏn tatives of Japan will have the charge of
the subjects and interests of Corea in
Territorial fishing rights off Kyŏngsang province
foreign countries.
1894 Japan
Building of Seoul-Pusan railway line
Document L
1895 US
Gold mining rights at Unsan, P’yŏngan province
Source: Kai-baik Lee, A New History
1896 US
Building of Seoul-Inch’ ŏn railway line
of Korea. Ilchokak Publishers, Seoul,
Russia Mining rights in Kyŏngwŏn and Chongsŏng counties,
Korea, 1984, 301.
Hamgyŏng province
Document M
Source:
Treaty
of Annexation, Japan’s
Permission to establish coaling station on Wŏlmi Island, off Inch’ ŏn
formal
annexation
of Korea, 1910.
Timber rights in the Yalu river basin and Ullŭng Island areas
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan
France Building of Seoul-Ŭiju railway line
and His Majesty the Emperor of
1897 Germany Gold mining rights at Kŭmsŏng, Kangwŏn province
Korea, having in view the special and
1898 Russia Permission to establish coaling station on Yŏngdo, off Pusan
close relations between their respective
US
Laying of electricity and water mains in Seoul
countries, desiring to promote the
common weal of the two nations and
Russia Authorization to establish Russo-Korean Bank
to assure the permanent peace in the
England Gold mining rights at Ŭnsan, P’yŏngan province
Far East, and being convinced that
Japan
Exclusive purchase rights to coal produced at P’yŏngyang
these objectives can be best attained by
Document L
the annexation of Korea to the Empire
of Japan, have resolved to conclude a
It is well known, however, that the power of the people, treaty of such annexation. Article 1. His Majesty the Emperor of
whether in civilized or barbaric nations, is greater than that of the Korea makes the complete and permanent cession to His Majesty
officials. In Korea and China, the people do not understand their the Emperor of Japan of all rights of sovereignty over the whole of
status, power, and rights, and therefore remain in slavery. When the Korea. ■
people come to realize that they are the masters of the nation, the
officials will then change and learn for the first time that the people BIBLIOGRAPHY
grant them salaries and honors.
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Document J
wa Yukichi. Cambridge: The University Press, 1969.
Source: Taft-Katursa Agreement, a memorandum of a conversation Ch’oe, Mun-hyong. Chegukchuui Sidae Ui Yolgang Kwa Hanguk, Vol. 37 and 65.
between Count Katsura, Prime Minister of Japan, and William Seoul: Minumsa Press, 1990.
Howard Taft, the personal representative of President Theodore Ferry, Jules. “Preface to Tonkin, 1890.” In Brian Tierney and Joan Scott, eds. West-
ern Societies: A Documentary History, Vol. II. New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1984.
Roosevelt, who later gave full approval of the agreement. 1905.
Secretary Taft observed that Japan’s only interest in the Philip- Lee, Ki-baik. A New History of Korea. Seoul, Ilchokak Publishers, 1984.
pines would be, in his opinion, to have these islands governed by a Lee, Peter H. ed. Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Vol. II. New York: Columbia
strong and friendly nation like the United States; Count Katsura University Press, 1996.
confirmed in the strongest terms the correctness of his views on the USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center, “Treaty of Annexation,”
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/documents/kore1910.htm (cited June 26, 2002).
point and positively stated that Japan does not harbor any aggres-
sive designs whatever on the Philippines. Secretary Taft remarked
to the effect that in his personal opinion, the establishment by
Japanese troops of a suzerainty over Korea to the extent of requir- MARY E. CONNOR teaches AP US History and Asian Studies at Westridge
School in Pasadena, California. In 2000 she received the Korea Society’s Fel-
ing that Korea enter into no foreign treaties without the consent of lowship in Korean Studies Program to study and travel in Korea. She
Japan was the local result of the present war and would directly received the Global Educator Award in 2002. Her book, The Koreas: A Global
contribute to permanent peace in the East.
Studies Handbook for ABC-CLIO, was published in 2002.
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