Pages 211-231 – Vladimir Tikhonov – ‘Fascinating and Dangerous- Japan in Korea’s Enlightenment Thought in the 1900s’

Historical introduction: Meiji Japan and Korean reformists, 1881–1905
Throughout the troubled history of Korea’s post-traditional transformation, Japan has served as an important reference point from the very beginnings of Korea’s opening to the West up to the present. However diverse the meanings which ‘Japan’ as a semantic unit could be charged with, it always played the role of an ‘essential O...