• In real life, Horace Allen the US minister in Korea (he appeared in Ep. 2) was actually close to King / Emperor Gojong. He was said to be pro-Korean sovereignty. He sort of clashed(?) with President Roosevelt who was pro-Japanese. Read more 🔗 http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/1996-03/1996-03-125-kang.pdf
• Horace Allen the US Minister wrote a few books. A few that I could find:
Thanks, daydreamer, I really enjoyed reading about Horace Allen. He’s mentioned a lot in the “Fifteen Years Among the Topknots” book that was posted a while ago, written by another of the Presbyterian missionaries: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50609/50609-h/50609-h.htm
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daydreamer11
July 19, 2018 at 12:08 AM
Mr. Sunshine made me read and find stuffs. Lol. Some random links (more in comments):
• American Marines sent to Korea to protect their Legation since late 1800s 🔗https://books.google.com.my/books?id=TZFt9MoNar0C&pg=PA52&dq=marine+guards+american+legation+korea&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q=marine%20guards%20american%20legation%20korea&f=false
daydreamer11
July 19, 2018 at 12:45 AM
+ a few more:
• In 1904 more American Marines landed in Korea to protect their Legation in Seoul (35 + 75 marines) 🔗 https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19040106.2.16
• In real life, Horace Allen the US minister in Korea (he appeared in Ep. 2) was actually close to King / Emperor Gojong. He was said to be pro-Korean sovereignty. He sort of clashed(?) with President Roosevelt who was pro-Japanese. Read more 🔗 http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/1996-03/1996-03-125-kang.pdf
• Horace Allen the US Minister wrote a few books. A few that I could find:
1) Korean Tales (1889) 🔗 https://ia801408.us.archive.org/34/items/koreantalesbein01allegoog/koreantalesbein01allegoog.pdf ;
2) A Chronological Index of the Foreign Relations of Korea from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Twentieth Century (1901) 🔗 https://ia800503.us.archive.org/15/items/chronologicalind00allerich/chronologicalind00allerich.pdf ;
3) ‘Things Korean’ (Seoul, 1908) 🔗 https://ia800205.us.archive.org/20/items/cu31924023275872/cu31924023275872.pdf and also
bbstl 🧹
August 1, 2018 at 4:13 PM
Thanks, daydreamer, I really enjoyed reading about Horace Allen. He’s mentioned a lot in the “Fifteen Years Among the Topknots” book that was posted a while ago, written by another of the Presbyterian missionaries: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50609/50609-h/50609-h.htm