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Hermit Kingdom – policy of isolation in response to the Japanese and Manchurians
(17 th- 19 th -century)
Practical Learning and Tonghak Movements grow in responses to Korea’s economic,
political and social problems
Folk Culture evolves/music, art, dance
Catholicism arrives in 17th century
Japan (1876) forces Korea to open to trade
U.S. Treaty of Friendship – Shufeldt Treaty (1882)
Protestant missionaries
1895 Japan defeats China
1905 Japan defeats Russia
1905 Portsmouth Treaty (Teddy Roosevelt)
1905 Taft Katsura Agreement
1910 Annexation of Korea by Japan - Japanese Occupation Background with a DBQ for
European, U.S. and World History classes on late 19 th /Early 20 th Century imperialism
Google “Nuclear Nightmare: North Korea” and this 45-50 minute documentary will be
available. It covers Japanese occupation of Korea, the Korean War, and through part of
the Bush administration.
1910-1945 Japanese
Colonial Period - Richard Kim’s “Lost Names,”
Linda Sue Park’s “When My Name was Keoko,
“Four Famous Koreans”- Yu Kwan-Sun), and Background Information
on Japanese Occupation and DBQ
1945 Division of Korea-
1948 Creation of the Republic of South Korea and the
Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK)
1950-1953 Korean War - Korean War DBQ and Tears of Blood
1960s/1970s Rapid economic growth – Miracle on the Han
1966-1973 Korean soldiers fight in Vietnam
1948-1961 First and Second Republics (Syngman Rhee)
1948-1994 Kim, Il Sung (DPRK)
1963-1979 Third and Fourth Republics (General Park, Chung Hee) – “Korean Economy Past,
Present and Future” Interview - Marcus Noland from Education About Asia
1980-1988 Fifth Republic (General Chun, Doo Hwan)
1988-1993 Sixth Republic (Roh, Tae Woo) – democratic reforms and membership
in the United Nations
1994 Death of Kim, Il Sung and Kim, Jung Il assumes leadership at a later date
1993-1998 Civilian Government, Kim, Young Sam
1998- 2003 Kim, Dae-jung,
2000 Summit Meeting between Kim, Dae-jung and Kim, Jung Il in Pyongyang
- A State of Mind Lesson and Bringing Korean Films into the Classroom
2003-2008 Roh, Moo-hyun, President of South Korea
2008-2013 Lee, Myung-Bak, President of South Korea
2011 Kim, jong-un assumes leadership in North Korea
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