The History of Korea (vol. 2 of 2)

by Homer B. Hulbert

There are three indexes: a General Index, a Biographical Index, and a Chronological Index, which features (with one exception) the only Korean characters in the volume.

In the Indexes, particularly the biographical index, a different style of Romanization was employed, which almost entirely dispenses with hyphenation and diacritical marks.

The page references to both volumes are unreliable, sometimes indicating the precise page where the subject is first mentioned, and sometimes indicating the first page of the chapter where that mention occurs.

A number of page references were missing or obviously corrupt, and have been added or replaced, where the reference is warranted by the text. Those which simply reference the wrong locations have been retained. On several occasions, dates were misinterpretted as volume and page references, e.g., ‘1420’ became ‘I 420’ and ‘1592’ become ‘I 592’. These have been corrected. The following table mentions these corrections:

Decadence of Koryu, I 177, 242, [432/324]	? Invalid page.
Education in Sil-la, I 120[4]	Removed.
Fortress of Puk-han built, [II 161]	Added.
Gutzleff, [561 I/II 195]	Corrected. Corrupt inversion?
Horse-breeding on Quelpart, [I 252]	Added.
Invasion, Hideyoshi’s, I [5/3]49	Replaced.
Invasion of Japan, [I 1420/1420, I] 304	Replaced
Japanese declaration of war against China, I [473/252]	Replaced.
Japanese take Pyeng-yang [I 592/1592], I 380	Replaced.
Timber on the Yalu, I [231]	Added.
Solchi, I [745/43]	Sŭl-chi? Invalid page.
Song Kil, I 208	Duplicate entry removed.
Song Siryul, [I 141]	Added.
Teung Wun-jung, I [3 2/330]	Replaced.
Waeber-Komura Agreement, II [3]08	Added.
Whan Ugeui	? No page reference.
Wirye	? No page reference.
Yang Honsu, [II 210]	Added. Yang Hön-su
Yu P’ang-no, I [883/394]	Replaced.

Corrections made to the text appear underlined. The original text can be viewed using a mouseover, as corrected text.

Corrections made to the text appear as links to the table below, or, for punctuation corrections, as a thin underline, e.g. original.

Substantive changes are summarized below. It is a lengthy list, so punctuation errors, such as missing full stops or comma/full stop errors, have been omitted. The page.line numbers serve as links back to the correction. Some pages consist of columns, in which case a triplet (page.column.line) is employed. Since the various index sections were numbered independently, the prefix ‘i’ applies to the General Index and ‘bi’ applies to the Biographical Index, and ‘ci’ to the Chronological Index.

[2.18]	Sa T[a/ă]-su,	Replaced.
[4.6]	could yet [harrass] and cut	sic
[5.12]	the fire-arrows flashed through[t] the air,	Removed.
[9.19]	So when he heard that [N/K]ato	Replaced.
[10.13]	K[y/w]ŭn Ryŭl took the bodies	Replaced.
[16.5]	in the hands of the Korean ge[r/n]erals	Replaced.
[19.26]	to the pleasures of peace tha[t/n] was for his own good	Replaced.
[21.13]	It is said that [e/o]ver 10,000	Replaced.
[21.25]	[waved] the main question	sic
[31.7]	Admiral Ma Gwi	sic
[31.31]	kept at Gen. [iK/Ki]m	Transposed.
[32.10a]	that [valliant] man	sic
[32.10b]	first filled h[e/i]mself with wine	Replaced.
[34.29]	move southward to Ch‘ung-ch[‘]ŭng Province	Added.
[36.4]	right division the [T /P‘]a-wha-gang.	Replaced.
[37.2a]	far stronger tha[t/n]	Replaced.
[37.2b]	the beleagured Japanese	sic
[37.35]	this had no little to [t/d]o with the return of Gen. Konishi	Replaced.
[38.2]	but with the departure of Cesp[i/e]des	Replaced.
[41.3]	tablet was raised there in his hon[o]ur	Added.
[42.16]	to ravage a cer[t]ain part	Added.
[44.25]	demand for condemnation or public [acquital]	sic
[44.30]	he instantly acknowle[d]ged his error.	Added.
[45.4]	When Chung Eung-t’a arrived in Na[n]king	Added.
[45.27]	the west was Sun-ch‘ŭn [ni/in] Chŭl-la Province	Transposed.
[47.10]	two handsome swords[.]	Added.
[50.34]	he soon became on familar	Added.
[51.6]	it proved a deadly poison	Removed.
[54.36]	being forwarded to [s/S]eoul to be beheaded.	Replaced.
[55.11]	In the[y] year 1605	Removed.
[57.19]	as to n[m/u]mber of ships	Replaced.
[60.33]	It will be n[ce/ec]essary	Transposed.
[64.10]	the great Manchu leader[.]	Added.
[67.16]	Norach’i has tak[a/e]n Puk-kwan	Replaced.
[67.22]	I am sure they are intendin[d/g]	Replaced.
[69.24]	drive back this Manchu horde.[”]	Added.
[70.6]	the downfall of this wret[e/c]hed parody of a king.	Added.
[72.36]	with his headqua[r]ters	Added.
[76.16]	from the r[o/e]bel ranks	Replaced.
[78.25]	he s[m/h]all receive a reward.	Replaced.
[78.39]	their leaders had to st[r]ike down	Added.
[82.18]	p[er/re]fect was at that moment sleeping off the effects	Transposed.
[83.3]	had been confiscated by the Manc[h]us	Added.
[85.14]	he also said[ said] the king must	Removed.
[87.11]	The Manchu army then moved northward beyon[g/d]	Replaced.
[89.4]	When they had been thor[r]oughly	Removed.
[91.27]	though it i[n/s] said,	Replaced.
[93.40]	the king had [s/c]ome to his senses	Replaced.
[94.18]	he despat[e/c]hed two envoys	Replaced.
[94.34]	and learn the roads[.]	Added.
[95.26]	The people of the no[r]thern provinces	Added.
[95.39]	but it is a little p[er/re]mature for us	Transposed.
[96.27]	wiping out this disgrace[.]	Added.
[97.14]	Such are some of the popular superstitions.	Removed.
[101.3]	approach to Kang-wha so careful[l]y	Added.
[102.1]	help from the outside.... uns[e/u]ccessful	Replaced.
[103.36]	provisoning of Nam-han	Added.
[104.8]	[beleagured] fortress.	sic
[107.5]	the surrounding line of bes[ei/ie]gers.	Transposed.
[112.13]	spite has alway been the rock	Added.
[113.17]	principle of righteousness[ss] is broken,	Removed.
[113.32]	and we surrender ou[r]selves to the clemency	Added.
[120.11]	the Ma[m/n]chu Emperor, but shortly afterward	Replaced.
[121.30]	The kingdo[n/m] will in that way be preserved.	Replaced.
[122.13]	plunged i[n/t] into his bowels,	Replaced.
[122.24]	Thi was the greatest honor	Added.
[125.14]	at a con[d]siderable distance,	Removed.
[131.3]	Genera[a]ls Yonggoldă and Mabudă	Removed.
[135.1]	to inte[r]dict its use.	Added.
[136.1]	doing what he could to mitigate[d]	Removed.
[136.23]	these m[a/e]n , and held a proper court	Replaced.
[136.31]	[plead] for them before the emperor,	sic
[137.18]	eleven men in Eui-ju and elsew[h]ere	Added.
[137.37]	Ch[‘]oé Myŭng-gil the Prime Minister.	Added.
[138.3]	In it he [exhonerates] Korea from all blame	sic
[138.15]	for the persons of Ch[‘]oé Myŭng-gil,	Added.
[138.26]	to Puk-kwan [goal].	sic
[139.8]	Then, terrified at his own de[a/e]d, he fled	Replaced.
[139.10]	sa[v/y]ing “I am the greatest of rulers.	Replaced.
[143.35]	Hamel afterwards wrote an account of his cap[it/ti]vity	Transposed.
[145.3]	an abcess broke out on his temple	Added.
[145.21]	to avoid bei[o/n]g	Replaced.
[147.20]	of his great p[re/er]sonality upon it.	Transposed.
[147.22]	over his rival H[ŏ/ŭ] Mok	Replaced.
[148.1]	the king sent forth an[d] edict that no more	Removed.
[148.12]	much of their [illgotten] gains,	sic
[148.32]	such a large mil[l]itary retinue	Removed.
[149.28]	169[,]771 kyul,	Added.
[158.22]	stripped her of all her[e] titles,	Added.
[160.31]	the father of the con[b/c]ubine	Replaced.
[164.6]	The fourth year of this unfortunate king, 1[6/7]24, opened	Replaced.
[168.1]	Ch[ŭ/ö]ng-ju. Here was stored	Replaced.
[168.3]	[strategem].	sic
[171.18]	from the gove[r]nment granaries.	Added.
[172.4]	and had forgotten all other [custom].	sic
[176.19]	ascendency of the Noron par[t]y,	Added.
[176.31]	The Noron [r/p]arty wanted to save themselves;	Replaced.
[182.35]	The ev[e]il evil deeds of the Soron party,	Removed.
[185.21]	work of interment[.]	Added.
[188.28]	there were 400 beli[e]vers in Korea,	Added.
[189.31]	In 1799 a peculiar plague broke out in P’y[e/ŭ]ng-yang	Replaced.
[196.15]	Yu who had [preceeded]	sic
[196.21]	By 1[7/8]37 two other French priests had arrived,	Replaced.
[197.1]	by still severer p[re/er]secutions	Transposed.
[200.19]	the very rapid spread of Roman Catholcism	Added.
[200.30]	mere debauche.	sic
[200.32]	which foretold the disolution of the dynasty.	Added.
[203.9]	The Minister Kim [Choa-geun],	sic
[212.19]	[soubriquet] of “The Free-will Offering.”	sic
[213.37]	reply to this u[n]expected assault	Added.
[213.38]	and spe[e]dily drove its garrison out.	Added.
[216.2a]	[h]undred Japanese female hides	Added.
[216.2b]	an amusing fiction which is[h]	Removed.
[219.24]	inflicted for this perfectly u[n]provoked assault.	Added.
[220.3]	a strip of n[a/e]utral territory	Replaced.
[220.6]	became the hiding pl[e/a]ce of refugees	Replaced.
[220.10]	the [wellfare] of both countries	sic
[220.16]	waters of the Yalu[,/.]	Replaced.
[221.10]	The Japanese th[a/e]n asked why they had been fired upon	Replaced.
[221.26]	on Feb[r]uary 27th 1876,	Added.
[225.27]	While the two hund[er/re]d men who were being drilled	Transposed.
[227.21]	Min Yŭng-ju[,]	Added.
[233.17]	and oppositon of	Added.
[234.9]	succeed[ed] in putting through a law	Added.
[234.33]	on the conservative party in their oppostion to reforms.	Added.
[235.5]	and banish or ex[e]cute the leaders	Added.
[235.31]	talked about it in a very excited manner [of] the Naval Attache	sic
[235.35]	a strong con[v/s]ervative	Replaced.
[235.38]	the relatives of one of the pr[e/o]gressionists	Replaced.
[238.3]	Then the summo[n]s was sent	Added.
[238.7]	Who[w]ever wielded the brutal sword,	Removed.
[239.35a]	Pak Y[ŭ]ng-hyo,	sic
[239.35b]	Kwang-bom[,]	Added.
[239.40]	Meanwhile Hong Yŭng-sik, Pak Y[ŭ]ng-kyo,	sic
[240.4]	Y[ŭ]ng-kyo and hacked them to pieces	sic
[240.20]	and killed them all, men[,] women and	Added.
[241.7]	the trouble of the [preceeding] month,	sic
[243.20]	Yuan the Chinese commissio[ne]r had taken up	Added.
[245.16]	and be seized with an [uncontrolable]	sic
[247.33]	of the people[’]s endurance	Added.
[252.15]	the former by way of Asan a[a/n]d the latter	Replaced.
[252.35]	The Kwang-[y/k]i was speedily disabled	Replaced.
[254.36]	It i[t/s] still a puzzle to many	Replaced.
[256.12]	of the Sak Divison.	Added.
[257.8]	took by ass[a]ult	Added.
[257.36]	about the Korean [archipelego].	sic
[258.5]	During the P’yŭng-yang e[n]gagement	Added.
[258.23]	At nine o[’]clock the smoke of the	Added.
[261.9]	deemed it wise to with[d]raw.	Added.
[261.22]	the battle of A[n]san had proved nothing	Removed.
[262.11]	proved that the Jap[a]nese could stand up	Added.
[263.16]	a radical and [ineffacable] difference	sic
[266.13]	of the “R[e]ighteous Army” in the country	Removed.
[267.11]	and partly of other d[e/i]stinguished men.	Replaced.
[267.19]	[Yi-jo] or Ceremonial Department,	sic
[268.15]	at liberty to address the thro[ n/ne]	Replaced.
[268.37]	(17) Even eunuc[k/h]s, if they are men of ability,	Replaced.
[270.27]	How absu[r]d this was	Added.
[270.37]	hundred other commodi[ti]es ,	Added.
[283.10]	under the i[n/m]pression	Replaced.
[286.8]	Viscount was an ent[uh/hu]siastic Buddhist	Transposed
[286.18]	between these two powerf[n/u]l personages	Replaced.
[286.38]	his arrival on the sce[u/n]e.	Replaced.
[286.39]	was assisted by the Japanese Minister	Removed.
[288.26]	from the Decison of the Japanese	Added.
[291.22]	ba[tall/ttal/ion in Seoul,	Replaced.
[291.26]	Adachi Kenzo and Kunitomo Shigeakira,	Removed.
[293.13]	Sakai [Marataro] and a few others,	sic: Masataro?
[293.16]	the party met the Japanese [drilled] Korean troops	sic: drilling?
[293.39]	and his acts, th[r]ough unforeseen by his superiors	Removed.
[294.10]	as given by the Hiroshma	Added.
[296.38]	foreign representatives were received lat[t]er later in the day.	Removed.
[298.20]	man as Miura ca[n] be called complicity.	Added.
[300.16]	Japanese in Seoul were now entirely quescent	Added.
[301.33]	through the G[oa]/ao]ler Cabinet	Transposed.
[303.17]	of Dr. Brown as adviser to Finance Department	Added.
[305.11]	enjoyed the respite too thoroug[h]ly	Added.
[306.16]	a [negligeable] quantity.	sic
[307.35]	Indepen[d]ence and to this	Added.
[313.9]	Russian admirals, including[,] Admiral Alexeieff	Removed.
[315.13]	the father of the Emper[p]or	Removed.
[315.15]	connected with the stir[r]ing events	Added.
[318.5]	attempt was made to po[si/is]on the Emperor	Transposed.
[318.26a]	this should not be[ be] done,	Removed.
[318.26b]	and so una[min/nim]ous was the sentiment	Transposed.
[318.34]	an event of great importance [ ] every	sic: in?
[319.6]	In a sense they were justfied in so thinking,	Added.
[321.12]	it embarrassed the adminstration,	Added.
[323.40]	of the Indepe[n]dence	Added.
[324.1]	to the contr[a]ry they	Added.
[326.38]	[negligeable] stage;	sic
[327.7]	the names of Mr. Legend[er/re] and Mr. Greathouse,	Transposed.
[327.31]	to [harrass] and injure Japanese interests	sic
[329.30]	even when rolling in op[p]ulence	Removed.
[329.37]	thousand[-]fold	Added.
[330.25]	of the outrage were d[e/i]smissed as	Replaced.
[331.37]	but it is cert[ia/ai]n	Transposed.
[335.3]	and through ministeral influence	Added.
[335.32]	it caused the rashly enthusia[a/s]tic to stop and think.	Replaced.
[337.2]	T[a/h]e Japanese Bank issu[e]s	Replaced, added.
[339.20]	many elements of g[uin/enui]une humor,	Replaced.
[340.13]	27th of Nove[n/m]ber fourteen	Replaced.
[340.26]	The tension was t[w/o]o great	Replaced.
[342.2]	power through servile adher[a/e]nce to Russian interests.	Replaced.
[342.26]	and exp[r]essed no desire	Added.
[344.8]	Foreigner threatened.	Added.
[345.27]	Hă-ju, the capital [ ] the province,	sic: missing ‘of’?
[348.6]	she had doubtless already assumed.	Removed.
[348.17]	territory encro[a]ched upon	Added.
[349.21]	inflicted the greatest possible harm	Removed.
[350.39]	removing the[re/ir] families and [re/ir] valuables	Replaced.
[352.3]	Four days l[e/a]ter this general made a final appeal	Replaced.
[352.18]	that seve[r]al thousand Russian troops	Added.
[355.4]	be at least enough rap[p]ort between the civil and military	Added.
[356.7]	that [“]if it is necessary	Added.
[356.26]	the Russians would not fire upon the t[r]ansports.	Added.
[357.17]	Japan had never recognized the n[ue/eu]trality of Korea,	Transposed.
[358.35]	we are t[w/o]o near it to see it	Replaced.
[361.10]	the British cruiser Talbot and the French c[ur/ru]iser Pascal.	Transposed.
[364.9]	but did not succe[e]d.	Added.
[364.29]	in other directi[a/o]ns	Replaced.
[366.39]	warlike operations between the two belligerents [was/were]	Replaced.
[367.9]	and soon took their depa[r]ture	Added.
[368.15]	Koreans we[a/r]e dissatisfied	Replaced.
[370.22]	It was perfect[l]y right for the Japanese	Added.
[370.31]	named the Il-chin [s/S]ociety.	Replaced.
[371.8]	an Ameri[c]an	Added.
[371.37]	but the war interfer[r]ed with the	Removed.
[371.40]	and the results of Christian	Removed.
[374.2]	They have served their purpose[d/s] and are ready	Replaced.
[374.8]	to drift upon the Sar[g]asso Sea	Added.
General Index
[i1.2.24]	“Baby [“]War”, The,	Removed.
[i1.2.44]	” of Hang-[jnI/ju], II 10	Replaced.
[i2.1.3]	” of Ka[Y]-do Island, II 129	Removed.
[i4.2.39]	Ma[u/n]chu, II 96	Replaced.
[i4.2.41]	” ” [Japan], I 166, 260	Added.
[i4.2.54]	to present d[a/y]nasty, First Japanese, I 302	Replaced.
[i6.1.12]	Gloir[e], La, II 197	Added.
[i6.2.37]	” of Japan, plans of Mongol, I[I] 214	Removed.
[i6.1.20]	Gutzleff, [561 I/II 195]	Replaced.
[i8.1.12]	Kijun, [K/M]igration of, I I27	Replaced.
[i10.1.22]	” Govern[a/o]r-general, I 204	Replaced.
[i10.2.22]	” Sorti[e]s from, II 103, 105, 107	Added.
[i10.1.59]	“Mul[l]berry Palace” built, II 182	Removed.
[i11.2.21]	Party strife forbidd[d]en, II 165	Removed.
[i12.2.1]	Railway concess[s/i]on, Seoul Fusan, II 318	Replaced.
[i13.1.6]	” laws re[c]vised, II 149	Removed.
[i13.1.39]	” Aggressi[o]n on Yalu, II 348	Added.
[i14.1.51]	Suzerainty c[o/a]st off, Chinese, II 273	Replaced.
[i15.2.28]	” between China and Kogur[y]ŭ, I 86, 98	Added.
Biographical Index
[bi1.2.24]	Chi [ /Y]un, I 259	Replaced.
[bi4.2.37]	Nak Wh[a] am, I 101	Added.
[bi5.1.11]	[Y/O] Yeeui, I 309	Replaced.
[bi5.1.17]	Ok K[ /a]ng, 61	Replaced.
[bi6.1.7]	Sin Kil[l/i], I 359	Replaced.
[bi6.1.55]	S[a/o]ng Hanhong, I 127	Replaced.
[bi6.1.56]	S[a/o]ang Heuian, I 322	Replaced.
[bi6.1.35]	So P‘il[l], I 141	Removed.
[bi6.1.40]	Sok Kang [Y]mok, I 322	Removed.
[bi6.3.26]	Tap-[ /d]on, I 85	Added.
[bi7.2.51]	[ /Y]i Chamyun, 215	Restored.
Chronological Index
[ci2.2.17]	Ka-duk[./-]wang	Replaced.
[ci4.2.35]	Pong[ /-]sang-wang	Replaced.