Eunhae Han’s Reviews > Korea: Art and Archaeology > Status Update

opening of Korea to the West followed the Treaty of Kanghwa, signed with the Japanese in 1876. This was Korea's first modern treaty, signed under foreign pressure. It was unequal and paved the way for the Korean-American Treaty in 1882 and subsequent treaties with Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, France and the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Part of the Altaic race, the Koreans are of the Tungusic group of Manchuria and Siberia.
In common with Mongolian and Turkic, the Korean spoken language belongs to the Tun-gusic branch of the Altaic language group. Korean also displays some similarities with
Japanese, and both languages employ a considerable proportion