The Kogo Reforms

Japanese: 甲午改革 - こうごかいかく

Political reforms took place in Korea from 1894 (the year of Gabo) to the following year. Japan, which had sent troops in the wake of the Gabo Peasant Rebellion, used the pretext for starting a war with China to insist on domestic reforms in Korea, and on July 23, it occupied the royal palace, installed Daewongun, and established an enlightened government with Kim Hong-jip as its head. The new government established the Military and National Affairs Office as a conference body, and issued a series of reform decrees for modernization. The reforms were wide-ranging, including the separation of court affairs from state affairs through reforms to the government system, the abolition of the civil service examination system, the conversion of taxes to cash, currency reform, the elimination of class discrimination, and the abolition of the bribe-giving system and torture.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1894年(甲午の年)から翌年にかけて行われた朝鮮の政治改革。甲午農民戦争を機に出兵した日本は，日清開戦の口実として朝鮮の内政改革を主張し，7月23日には王宮を占領して大院君を擁立，金弘集を首班とする開化派の政権を成立させた。新政権は会議機関として軍国機務処を設置し，相次いで近代化のための改革法令を発令した。官制の改革による宮中事務と国政事務の分離，科挙の廃止，租税の金納化，通貨の改革，身分差別の撤廃，縁坐制･拷問の廃止など，改革は広範囲に及んだ。

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