The Korean Empire

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What? Korea was an empire? Never heard of it.



Emperor Gojong.

As the Qing Dynasty/Empire of China was an Empire, it meant that some nations around them paid tributes and they kept expanding land. But as the Qing Dynasty weakened, the Joeson Dynasty said that it was time to stop paying the tributes. So in October 20th, 1897, the Joeson Dynasty became the Daehan Empire (Korean Empire), and Gojong the Great (Look on the Korean Kings' names section) became Gojong Hwangjae (Emperor Gojong).

The Korean Empire is mistakenly thought for being just a name-changed horrifying nation, but really, it's not. It is the symbol of Korean urbanization, in which we decided to let in a bunch of foreign stuff into our nation. We developed modern weopons and modern buildings. Many of us CUT our hair, which was a sacred thing back then. Emperor Gojong's hair was forcefully cut by the Japanese, however, who ruled the peninsula after him. Gojong was also sad when the Japanese killed his wife, the Emperess Min of Korea. This angered many Koreans, but angered them even more when in August 29th, four random people who wanted money and power signed a contract with Japan claiming that the Korean Empire was to be "unified" with the Japanese Empire. Many Korean royals had to marry Japanese royals and as the Korean royals died out, Japan was taking over Korea.

By the way, did you know that the Korean Empire even had a national anthem? I listened to it on Youtube, and it has all the old grammars that disappeared in South Korea (but didn't disappear in the North).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBvh95hpJtA

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