Japanese soldiers near Chemulpo, Korea, August–September 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War
Korean Embassy to Japan, 1655, attributed to Kano Toun Yasunobu.
The Joseon Tongsinsa were goodwill missions sent intermittently, at the request of the resident Japanese authority, by Joseon Dynasty Korea to Japan. The Korean noun identifies a specific type of diplomatic delegation and its chief envoys. From the Joseon diplomatic perspective, the formal description of a mission as a tongsinsa signified that relations were largely “normalized,” as opposed to missions that were not called tonginsa.
A North Korean man waves his hand as a South Korean relative weeps, following a luncheon meeting during inter-Korean temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort October 31, 2010
Four hundred and thirty-six South Koreans were allowed to spend three days in North Korea to meet their 97 North Korean relatives, whom they had been separated from since the 1950-53 war.
Chinese soldiers surrender to Australians, 24 April 1951
A line of Chinese soldiers kneeling with their hands on their heads in front of a group of soldiers from Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), just beneath the ridge of the low section of the island feature occupied by 3RAR at Kapyong. The Chinese are prisoners taken at dawn on 24 April at the Battle of Kapyong.
One of the earliest photographs depicting yangban Koreans, taken in 1863. The yangban were part of the traditional ruling class or nobles of dynastic Korea during the Joseon Dynasty (July 1392 – October 1897). The yangban were either landed or unlanded aristocracy who comprised the Korean Confucian idea of a “scholarly official.”
