Demonstration of traditional Korean swordsmanship A man clad in traditional Korean military dress demonstrates sword-wielding ...

He adopted a system under the law of hopae (identification tags) to determine the population, and launched the major executive bodies called the Six Ministries of Joseon: Personnel (Ijo), Taxation ...

Ultimately, Joseon was forced to sign the highly unequal, one-sided KoreanJapanese Treaty, or Ganghwa Treaty (1876) with Japan in 1876 under military threat. Subsequently, imperialist powers, ...