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When the Ming dynasty in China was tottering to its fall the Koreans supported it, and in 1637 they were beaten by the victorious Manchus, and a heavy tribute imposed upon them, to be paid annually. Since this date the Koreans continued to send a mission to Japan, but latterly merely as a matter of form, for the satisfac- tion of Japanese pride, the cost of the excursion being paid by the Japanese. The country has all along adopted the most exclusive policy. The only com- munication with Wester...n ideas seems to have come through the tribute mission to Peking meeting there Jesuit missionaries, through whom Father Kicci's work in Chinese on the " True Principles about God " seems to have reached Korea. A Christian sect was formed, and Koman Catholic missionaries were successful in KOREA. 117 getting a residence in the country, and keeping up amidst persecution a small Christian community, but they were finally expelled in 1866. From 1654-67 a Dutchman named Hamel lived in the country, and in a book which he wrote says that the upper classes frequented the monasteries rather as pleasure-houses than temples.
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