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Ganghwa Island - New World Encyclopedia (1017 words) |
 | Ganghwa Island (江華島), known as the first line of defense for the capital city of Seoul and the royal palaces of the Joseon Dynasty, played a key role in the opening of Korea to the world. |
| Ganghwa Island, the fifth largest island in South Korea, sits in the estuary of the Han River on the west coast of South Korea, separated from Gimpo on the mainland by a narrow channel spanned by several bridges. |
| In 1866, distressed by the rapidly growing numbers of Korean converts to Catholicism, as well as the humiliation suffered by China at the hands of Westerners during the Opium Wars, the Korean court persecuted the French missionaries, massacring French Catholic missionaries and Korean converts alike. |
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