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__**TIMELINE OF KOREAN HISTORY**__

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 * Isabella Bird
 * She visited Korea when Queen Min was in control.
 * She wrote about Queen Min's impressions.
 * Graceful, novelty, regal.
 * Nice looking women with cold and kin eyes.
 * Charismatic leader of the country.
 * Men-based society, but Queen Min had great power as a woman.
 * Repeatedly discusses about Queen Min's beauty, intelligence, personality.
 * Queen Min's beauty.
 * Queen Min
 * Was born in poor background and married 고종
 * 대원군 didn't want queen with strong background b/c he was scared of his power to get taken.
 * However, people who disagreed with 대원군's policies gathered around Queen Min.
 * People against Korea's westernization were against Queen Min.
 * esp. Japanese
 * Queen Min wanted to westernize Korea.
 * Wanted to make Korea's independence, but also development in technologies etc.
 * Wanted to buy time for Korea to modernize.
 * She became the target of military mutiny (Kapsin Coup)
 * Queen Min was an "icon" of Nationalist.
 * Japanese had to kill her for their own benefits because she was so influential.
 * Ambition to annex Korea.

1. Do artistic renditions or photographs depict the heroics of war better? : Renditions depict the heroics of war better because many of them contained staged scenes. Also, Japanese only accepted films that show Japanese soldiers winning. Therefore, renditions portrayed the heroic side of Japanese army and soldiers.

2. Do artistic renditions or photographs depict the horrors of war better? : Photographs show the horrors of war better because they cannot be modified by people. The real war scene is directly captured in the photographs. For example, people could see dead bodies, suffering soldiers, and destructions in the photographs. Compared to renditions, the real photographs portray the war in more realistic way which is horrible.

3. How does the medium affect the message? Can we say that “the medium is the message”? : Messages can be completely different depending on what mediums are used. For example, photographs showed the horrible side of the war because they capture the real scene of war. On the other hand, war films and wood-block pictures focused on the heroic side of Japanese soldiers because the scenes and pictures can be different from the reality in any ways. In conclusion, “the medium is the message” is a right expression since the messages changed completely by the type of mediums.

4. Why is 1905 such a turning point in Japanese and World history? How might history have been different had Japan lost the Russo-Japanese War? : Since Japanese won the Russo-Japanese War, Japan gained power as a strong nation in the world and militarists gained more power in Japan. In addition, Japan’s victory gave hope to Asians that non-white nation can beat a European power. If Japan lost the Russo-Japanese War, Japan would not have annexed Korea in 1910 because Japan’s power would have been weakened by losing war.

*** Wood block prints of the Sino-Japanese War** 1. How are the Japanese/Chinese soldiers portrayed in these prints?
 * Chinese soldiers are suffering from pain and losing the battle. Their facial expressions look painful and most of them are collapsing because they got attacked. On the other hand, Japanese soldiers look brave and strong. They are attacking the Chinese soldiers, but do not get injured. In addition, chinese soldiers are portrayed as demons and evils to justify Japanese soldiers killing them.

2. How are the weapons used by each side different? Does this tell us anything about Japanese technological advancement?
 * Weapons used by Japanese soldiers and Chinese soldiers are generally similar. They use long guns and some long swords to fight each other. However, some Chinese soldiers use old weapons which show that Japanese technologies on weapons developed more. Moreover, it tells that Japanese weapons have developed compared to the past.

*** Baseball Club Rouser** 1. Why do sports often become symbolic battlegrounds between nations?
 * Nowadays, countries do not fight each other in wars like in the past. Because of this change, the nations compete against each other with something else, like sports. Also, people feel nationalism when they watch international sports games. Everyone eagerly wants to see his or her own country winning the game. Therefore, sports are symbolic battlegrounds between the nations. //Why does this matter to a people? What do they find so gratifying in the experience of witnessing their team beat another in the arena of sport?//

2. Is imperialism/colonialism simply about militarily and politically controlling another nation, or is it also about proving one's self-perceived cultural superiority over another?
 * Imperialism is proving one's self-perceived cultural superiority over another. Culture is crucial because it represents the country and it is the unique characteristics of the nation. If one country has more developed and advanced culture than others, it automatically proves that the country is superior to other nations.