ABSTRACT
They succeeded in gaining the interest of the Queen's adopted nephew, Min Y ng-ik, now the leader of the clan, and in 1881 Yi Tong-in was made the head of a new council concerned with modernization and he frequently conferred with the King. Pak Y nghyo and Kim Ok-kyun went to Japan, ostensibly on official business, but more concerned with their revolutionary aims. While there they spent some time with Fukuzawa Yukichi and there can be little doubt that his encouragement of these able and influential young men along the path of revolution, though done under the semblance of concern for Korea, was purely in furtherance of his country's dreams of empire.
