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The Russia–Korea Treaty of 1884 was negotiated between representatives of
Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...
and
Korea Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...
.


Background

In 1876, Korea established a trade treaty with
Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
after Japanese ships approached
Ganghwado Ganghwa Island (), also Ganghwado, is an island in Ganghwa County, Incheon, South Korea. It is in the Yellow Sea and in an estuary of the Han River. The island is separated from Gimpo (on the South Korean mainland) by a narrow channel spanned b ...
and threatened to fire on the Korean capital. Treaty negotiations with several Western countries were made possible by the completion of the initial Japanese overture. In 1882, the Americans concluded a treaty and established diplomatic relations, which served as a template for subsequent negotiations with other Western powers.


Terms

The Russians and Koreans negotiated and approved a multi-article treaty with provisions similar to those of other Western nations.Korean Mission ; excerpt, "Treaty and Diplomatic Relations Between Korea and Russia. Treaty of Amity and Commerce dated June 24, 1884"; Kim, Ministers from Russia to Korea were appointed in accordance with the treaty:
Karl Ivanovich Weber Karl Ivanovich Weber (also Carl von Waeber; , , Liepāja – 8 January 1910) was a diplomat of the Russian Empire and a personal friend to King Gojong of Korea's Joseon Dynasty. He is best known for his 1885–1897 service as Russia's first cons ...
, appointed October 14, 1885;
Alexey Shpeyer Alexey Nikolayevich Shpeyer (; 1854–1916) was a diplomat from the Russian Empire. The Russian government had intended to send him to Korea in 1895 to replace Karl Ivanovich Weber as Russian consul general in Korea, but at the request of King Go ...
, appointed March 28, 1898;
Paul Pavlov Paul may refer to: People * Paul (given name), a given name, including a list of people * Paul (surname), a list of people * Paul the Apostle, an apostle who wrote many of the books of the New Testament * Ray Hildebrand, half of the singing duo P ...
, appointed December 13, 1898. The treaty remained in effect even after a Japanese protectorate was established over Korea in 1905.Korean Mission ; excerpt, "''Official rescript issued by Japan, November 22, 1905, declares: 'In bringing this agreement to the notice of the powers having treaties with Korea, the Imperial Government declares that * * * they will see that these treaties are maintained and respected, and they also engage not to prejudice In any way the legitimate commercial and industrial interests of those powers in Korea'.''"


See also

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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 ...
*
List of Ambassadors from Russia to North Korea A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
*
List of Ambassadors from Russia to South Korea The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Korea is the official representative of the President of Russia, president and the government of the Russian Federation to the President of South Korea, ...


Notes


References

* Kim, Chun-gil. (2005). ''The History of Korea.'' Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ;
OCLC 217866287
* Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922). ''Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament.'' Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office
OCLC 12923609
* Warner, Denis Ashton and Peggy Warner. (1974). ''The Tide at Sunrise: a History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.'' New York: Charterhouse
OCLC 422325975
* Yŏng-ho Ch'oe; William Theodore De Bary;
Martina Deuchler Martina Deuchler (born 1935 in Zurich) is a Swiss academic and author. She was a professor of Korean studies at the SOAS University of London from 1991 to 2001. Profile Martina Deuchler developed her interest in Korea by way of Chinese and Ja ...
and Peter Hacksoo Lee. (2000). ''Sources of Korean Tradition: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries.'' New York: Columbia University Press. ;
OCLC 248562016
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