Gapsin coup
| Gapsin coup, Gapsin revolution | |
|---|---|
| Korean alphabet : | 갑신정변, 갑신 혁명 |
| Hanja : | 甲申 政變, 甲申 革命 |
| Revised Romanization : | Gapsin Jeongbyeon, Gapsin hyukmyung |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Kapsin chŏngbyŏn, Kapsin hyŏkmyŏng |
The Gapsin Putsch , also known as the Gapsin Revolution , was a three-day failed coup attempt on December 4, 1884 in Korea of the late Joseon Dynasty . The name Gapsin ( 갑신 ) is derived from the year name for the year 1884 in the Chinese 60-year cycle .
procedure
After the opening of Japan and the subsequent rapid modernization of the country, the Gaehwapa , a group of Korean reformers led by Kim Ok-gyun and Pak Yeong-hyo , intended to carry out such changes in Korea as well. To eliminate the conservative, reform-reluctant faction at the Korean court, they occupied the royal palace in Hanseong on December 4, 1884 .
To counter the threat, Queen Min secretly called on Chinese troops to crush the ill-planned coup. After three days , the 1,500-strong Chinese garrison in Hanseong led by Yuan Shikai succeeded in suppressing the coup. During the fighting, the Japanese embassy building was burned down and forty Japanese were killed. Kim Ok-gyun and the other surviving reformers, who had relied on the reluctant Japanese support, were forced to flee into exile in Japan.
consequences
The Japanese government requested an apology and compensation from the Korean government. This led to the Hanseong Treaty of January 9, 1885, in which diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan were restored and the latter also received 110,000 yen and a new plot of land for the new building of the embassy.
The failure of the coup was a fatal setback for the reform movement in Korea. Because their leaders had been removed from Korean soil for a decade and their use of force had morally discredited Japan as a model for modernization.
In order to relieve tension on the Korean Peninsula between the Chinese Empire of the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese Empire , both parties signed the Treaty of Tientsin in April 1885 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Duus: The Abacus and the Sword. The Japanese Penetration of Kore, 1895-1910. University of California Press, Berkeley 1995.
- ^ Marion Eggert, Jörg Plassen: Small history of Korea . Publishing house CH Beck, Munich 2005.
- ^ Marion Eggert, Jörg Plassen: Small history of Korea . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2005, p. 114.