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| Tango01 | 06 Apr 2016 9:56 p.m. PST |
"A recent blog, "The French Navy in Korea, 1866", described Korean attempts in the 1860s to retain its status as "The Hermit Kingdom", cut off from contacts with the world outside. The key figure in this was the sinister Yi Ha-ung (1821-1898), the "Daewongun" – a title meaning "Prince of the Great Court" –who was to be a near-dominant player in internal Korean politics for four decades until the late 1890s. Adept in playing off internal and external forces against each other, his main objective was to limit external contacts and to maintain traditional structures and culture unchanged. This policy had led to large-scale and savage persecution of Christian converts and French missionaries and these in turn were to lead to a brief French punitive mission in 1866, as described in the previous blog…"
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