This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...In a prefecture near Chemulpo it was the custom to add ten per cent to the gross amount of the tax levy for the benefit of the yam mi runners. This was abolished four years ago but this year has been again put and the people ordered to pay not only the extra ten er cent but the part remitted for three years past, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...In a prefecture near Chemulpo it was the custom to add ten per cent to the gross amount of the tax levy for the benefit of the yam mi runners. This was abolished four years ago but this year has been again put and the people ordered to pay not only the extra ten er cent but the part remitted for three years past, and in all forty per cent extra is being collected from jieople already on the verge of famine. And yet the people are paying, murmuring little, but still they pay. They apply pet names to the governor and the runners when they go by, such as "there go the pirates, ' and kindred remarks. Sometimes the breaking point is reached and the farmer's patience is exhausted and then comrs riots. With a clout around his head and a big club in big t hand lie calls.alxiut 0,000 strong oil the governor and hi uiiiTcrlings and his wrath makes him a lion. These demonstration triv rarely into a rebellion, for rebellion of tin common folk are almost unknown to Korean history but.sometimes they com," as ua.-Urease in 18(kj-u4, the 'Ionic Hale uprising being a widespread movement among farmers. Since then events have taught him that he not only has rights but that he has the power to protect them and it is doubtful if his patience will endure to the point it reached in the past. The Korean farmer is superstitious. He stand in (error of the demons whose dirty and grotcsJnc fetiches decorate his hur.ibkabode. Confucianism and Buddhism are alike in his hands only the grossest of superstitions and where any ill befalls him he will Ik; found offering rice to a piece of paper, or whole boiled dot; and vermicelli to a hen) of straw. In every community the mudntu/ (sorceress) lives and thrives, getting a generous share of every harvest in return for her dances and s...
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