page_title: Gwangmu Reform
section_title: Reforms
hierarchical_section_title: Gwangmu Reform / Reforms
caption_attribution_description: 한국어: 판각가 미상 최초의 목판만화삽화, 유길준의 감각 노동야학독본 1908 English: The first woodcut manhwa by an unidentified painter, printed in Gamgak Nodong Yahak Dokbon in 1908 한국어: 노동야학회 고문 (勞動夜學會 顧問) 유길준씨 (兪吉濬氏), 노동자 (勞動者) 고문의 말씀&#160;:여보세요, 나라를 위해서 일해야합니다. 또 사람은 배워야 합니다. 노동자의 대답&#160;:네, 고맙습니다. 그리하겠습니다. English: Adviser of Workers' Evening School Council Mr. Yu Gil-jun, A worker The adviser says&#160;:Hello, we have to work for our country and people have to learn The worker says&#160;:Yes, thanks. I will do that.
context_page_description: The Gwangmu Reform was a chain of events that was aimed at modernizing and westernizing the Korean Empire as a late starter in the industrial revolution. The reform that took place during the Gwangmu Era from 1897 to 1907 showed, in the long term, Korean potential for starting and continuing modernisation, even in the face of adversity. This sort of development was unseen until the Myon Chang-era of the 1960s and 70s. The Gwangmu reform of Emperor Gojong later staged the fundamental background for future Korean development by building infrastructure, reforming the economy and creating the nucleus of the modern bureaucracy and military.
caption: A cartoon during the Korean Empire that shows Yu Gil-jun, the former Yangban and a commoner using the same speech level with each other.
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