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Korea will not recognize the emperor in Japan, so Japan debates invading Korea.
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Japan makes Korea sign the Kangwa Treaty, which opens Korea to foreign trade.
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US signs treaty of Friendship with Korea, and soon other western powers follow.
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These two leaders sign the Li- Ito agreement which balances their forces and influences in Korea.
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The Korean Tonghak rebellion (anti- foreign populist) is in full force.
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The first Korean immigrants come to Hawaii.
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This war begins giving Japan the Liaodong concession, Russian railway rights in Manchuria and influence over Korea which went unchallenged.
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US Pres. Theodore Roosevelt bargins the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo- Japanese war.
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Korea then became apart of the Japanese empire.
