Korean Empire

state of Korea from October 1897 to August 29, 1910

Official currency of the Korean Empire from 1902 to 1910

The yangban (; ) were part of the traditional ruling class or gentry of dynastic Korea during the Joseon period. The yangban were mainly composed of highly educated civil officials and military officers—landed or unlanded aristocrats who individually exemplified the Korean Confucian form of a "scholarly official". They were largely government administrators and bureaucrats who oversaw medieval and early modern Korea's traditional agrarian bureaucracy until the end of the dynasty in 1897. In a broader sense, an office holder's family and descendants, as well as country families who claimed such

Korean royal and imperial dynasty

national anthem

1905 Japan–U.S. agreement regarding the extent of their spheres of influence in Korea and Philippines

1904-1945 Imperial Japanese Army formation

a railway line owned by Korea Railroad Corporation in South Korea

derogatory term for the signatories of the 1905 Eulsa Treaty

currency

1897–1910 military of the Korean Empire

event (1896–1897) in which Gojong, king of Joseon, and the crown prince (the future Sunjong of Joseon) fled to the Russian legation in Seoul in fear of a coup d'état and in reaction to the murder of his wife Empress Myeongseong by the Japanese empire

one of the symbols of the Korean Empire (1897–1910)

1907 attempt to prevent Korea's colonization by Japan

The Iljinhoe () was a nationwide organization in Korea formed on August 8, 1904. A Japanese record states the number of party members was about 800,000, but another survey record by the Japanese Resident-General of Korea in 1910 shows the number was about 90,000. After seeing the failure of Korea's isolationism, the party claimed that Korea could not develop capitalism on its own, and demanded a merger with the Empire of Japan. Song Byeong-jun (), the leader of the group and a high-ranking official in the Korean government before the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty actively pushed ahead the anne

series of modernizing reforms (1897–1904) in the Korean Empire

issued by the former Korean Empire in the early 1900s

Kungnaebu () was a government office of Joseon and the Korean Empire in charge of affairs related to the royal House of Yi. In the government organization during the Joseon Dynasty, the division between the state of affairs and royal affairs was not distinctive. It had several subdivisions such as Jonchinbu, and Uibinbu, Donnyeongbu and others, some of which were independently operated or belonged to Yukjo (Six Ministries of Joseon).

1899 document

First naval ship of the Korean Imperial Navy