ABSTRACT
A more detailed survey of the east coast was made in 1797 by Captain Broughton of the British Navy who called the harbour at W nsan 'Broughton Bay' and the water between Pusan and Tsushima 'Broughton Strait'. The west coast was charted in 1816 by two more naval vessels under Commander Basil Hall, who named various islands, capes and bays after himself, his relatives, and the children of the Queen. He had friendly and sometimes quite hilarious contacts with the local people, who were obviously torn between curiosity, Korean traditions of hospitality, and fear of execution if the bureaucrats found out. Hall had some tinted drawings made of them which he showed to Napoleon Bonaparte in the course of a courtesy call at St Helena on his way home and used to illustrate his popular Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island which was published in 1818 and served to introduce the country to the English-speaking world.
