Japanese as collaborators. In fact, the Japanese, not necessarily by design, contributed greatly to the modernization of Korea and the transformation of its society, a process which continued and accelerated in the post-World War II period.
1876-1910. The economic penetration of Korea by Japan began with the commercial Kanghwa treaties of 1876 and the opening up of Korea's treaty ports to Japanese trade in the last quarter of the 19th century. Japanese interests in Korea were primarily strategic and secondarily economic but the two were intertwined and related to the goal of keepi
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