Gapsin Coup
In 1885, during the Gapsin Coup, Min Young-ik, the nephew of Empress Myeongseong (wife of Emperor Gojong), was stabbed and seriously injured. The German diplomat Paul Georg von Möllendorff was present at the massacre and quickly requested medical care from American Dr. Horace Newton Allen, a missionary who had recently arrived. Allen was an American Presbyterian missionary who studied medicine at Miami University. Under his modern medical treatment, unknown to Korea at the time, Min recovered in three months.