Pages 43-57 – Hyunsoo Kim – The Relationship between the British Fleet’s Withdrawal from Port Hamilton (Kŏmundo) and British Foreign Policy’

On 28 April 1884, Britain and Korea exchanged ratifications for the Second British-Korean Treaty of Amity and Commerce (the ‘Parkes’ treaty). With this treaty’s ratification, Britain and Korea created an official diplomatic channel and wrote clearly the first page of British-Korean diplomatic history. However, the Port Hamilton affair (May 1885–Feb 1887), in which the British navy occupied a Kore...