Abstract
As discussed in the previous chapters, the relations between Muromachi Japan and early Chosŏn Korea were more than mere neighbourly relations with the evolution of ethnocentric diplomatic ideology on each part. Japanese foreign relations with Korea were engineered more for trade profit than from any principle of state. The following statement by a Korean bureaucrat in 1485 manifests the Korean government’s attitude towards Japanese traders:
To allow private trade is detrimental [to our state]. Firstly, [traders] engage in smuggling. Secondly, [they] leak intelligence. Thirdly, [merchants] dispute over their profit. For centuries [our] trade policy was to control and restrain [oe i ki mi*, wai i chi mi**] barbarians, but not to make a profit.1
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Kang, E.HJ. (1997). Hideyoshi’s Diplomacy and the Diplomatic Rupture with Korea. In: Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376939_4
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