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  • Hari-Kiri at the Hague? April 4, 2014

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Hari-Kiri at the Hague?

    In 1907 three Korean representatives travelled to the Netherlands to persuade the powers meeting at the Hague Peace Conference to revoke Japanese hegemony over Korea. Their leader was Yi Jun (aka Ri Jun, Yi Chun, pictured left) and he and his two colleagues were devastated to learn, upon arrival, that they would not even be […]