Category: Volume 10
In June 1832, the British merchant ship the Lord Amherst sailed into Kodaedo, Hongju-mok in Chungchŏng province and proceeded to ride at anchor for twenty days as it waited for government officials to forward its letter to the King demanding the conclusion of a commercial treaty and an agreement on the fair treatment of shipwrecked sailors.1 It was in 1832, the same year the Lord Amherst demanded ...