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Podcast: The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast
Episode: The West Comes Knocking | The Fall of Joseon, part 18 (1791-1801)
Description: Send us Fan MailWhen a Dutch sailor shipwrecked on Jeju in 1627, he thought he’d been captured by cannibals. Instead, he became Korea’s first Westerner—and the first sign of change that would shake Joseon to its core.This episode traces the arrival of Western guns, God, and ideas—from Jan Janse de Weltevree to the Catholic persecutions of 1801—as Korea’s Confucian order faces its first real collision with the West. Korea's #1 ghost and dark history walking tour. Book at DarkSideOfSeoul.com Get your comic at Dark...