Korea and the Koreans in the Russian press of 1904-1905
Journal Title: International Journal of Korean History - Year 2005, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
The importance of Russian-Japanese war of 1904 – 1905 for the actualization of the image of Korea and the Koreans in Russian public thought is hard to overestimate. It was at that time, on the threshold of the fight for the spheres of interest in the Far East, that the first quality reviews and studies devoted to Korea, including reports of research expeditions, appeared in Russia 1 . In 1900, the Ministry of Finance published a fundamental “Description of Korea” in three parts with the total volume of 1250 pages that, according to contemporaries’ opinions, did not have a counterpart abroad2. However, it was the war that turned Korea, “this strange country” 3, “the corner of the Far East we used to be mostly indifferent to” 4, into an object of common interest for the mass reader.
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Igor Ermachenko
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