The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1885, also known as the with Hanseong () being a historical name for
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...
, was negotiated between Japan and Korea following an unsuccessful
coup d'état
A coup d'état (; ; ), or simply a coup
, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to powe ...
in the Korean capital in December 1884.
Background
A coup d'état, also known as the
Gapsin Coup, was attempted on December 4, 1884. The timing of the coup took advantage of the fact that the Chinese withdrew half of its garrison troops from Seoul.
After only three days, the revolt was suppressed by Chinese military forces which were garrisoned in the Korean capital city of
Hanseong (
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...
). During the conflict, the Japanese legation building was burned down, and forty Japanese were killed.
Inoue Kaoru was the chief Japanese diplomat in dealings with Korea. Diplomatic negotiations were concluded in January 1885.
[Duus, Peter. (1995). ]
Treaty provisions
The Japanese government demanded and received an apology and reparations.
Aftermath
In an effort to defuse tensions over Korea, both Japan and China agreed to withdraw their troops from Korea in the
Convention of Tientsin
The , also known as the Tianjin Convention, was an agreement signed by the Qing Empire of China and the Empire of Japan in Tientsin, China on 18 April 1885. It was also called the "Li-Itō Convention".
Following the Gapsin Coup in Joseon in 188 ...
of April 1885.
See also
*
Unequal treaties
The unequal treaties were a series of agreements made between Asian countries—most notably Qing China, Tokugawa Japan and Joseon Korea—and Western countries—most notably the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, the Unit ...
Notes
References
* Duus, Peter. (1995). ''The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910.'' Berkeley: University of California Press. ;
* Kim, Chun-gil. (2005). ''The History of Korea.'' Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ;
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