Person1858 – 1916

Park Je-sun

Foreign minister who signed the 1905 treaty, one of the Five Eulsa Traitors

In 1899 he signed the Korea–Qing commercial treaty, the first concluded between the two countries as equals. As foreign minister in 1905 he signed the Eulsa Treaty with the Japanese minister Hayashi Gonsuke, stripping Korea of its diplomatic rights and bringing in the Residency-General. He then became prime minister, and as home minister in 1910 he backed the annexation, for which he received a Japanese peerage.

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On 17 November 1905, with troops surrounding Gyeongungung, Itō Hirobumi forced a treaty stripping the Korean Empire of its diplomatic rights; a Japanese Residency-General was set up and soon meddled in domestic affairs too.

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Itō Hirobumi1841 – 1909
First prime minister of Japan who forced the 1905 protectorate treaty and became the first Resident-General; shot by Ahn Jung-geun at Harbin
Hayashi Gonsuke1860 – 1939
Japanese minister in Seoul who signed the 1904 protocol and agreements and the 1905 treaty
Lee Wan-yong1858 – 1926
One of the Five Eulsa Traitors; as prime minister he signed the 1907 treaty, the 1909 memorandum and the annexation treaty
Gojong1852 – 1919
Twenty-sixth king of Joseon and first emperor of the Korean Empire
Homer B. Hulbert1863 – 1949
American teacher at Yugyeong Gongwon who wrote the Hangeul geography "Samin pilji" and, as Gojong’s secret envoy, protested the Eulsa Treaty and aided the Hague emissaries
Na Cheol1863 – 1916
Plotted with O Gi-ho to kill the five ministers who signed the Eulsa Treaty, and in 1909 founded Daejonggyo, a religion honouring Dangun

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Seoul18 BC – 1988
From Hanseong Baekje to the June Democratic Struggle — the Han River land every kingdom fought for, and Joseon’s capital for five centuries