Article(print)#11984
KOREA TODAY: ASPECTS OF KOREA IN 1983
In: Asian affairs: journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Volume 15, Issue 3, p. 542-552
ISSN: 0306-8374
THE YEAR THAT HAS JUST PASSED HAS BEEN ONE OF SIGNIFICANCE FOR BRITAIN AS FAR AS KOREA IS CONCERNED, FOR IT MARKS THE CELEBRATION OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. IN NOVEMBER 1883, SIR HARRY PARKES, THEN BRITISH MINISTER IN PEKING, SIGNED A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, WHICH REPLACED A TREATY SIGNED IN 1882, BUT WHICH WAS NEVER RATIFIED. PARKES'S TREATY WAS RATIFIED IN APRIL 1884. THUS 1983 HAS BEEN THE CENTENARY YEAR OF ANGLO-KOREAN RELATIONS. THE YEAR HAS BEEN MARKED IN NUMEROUS WAYS, BOTH IN BRITAIN AND KOREA. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL HIGH-LEVEL EXCHANGES AT LEVELS, AND MORE ARE SCHEDULED.
