Good catch; thanks; I’ve corrected the text. I think at the time, though, it may have been S/S (for steamship); but I haven’t time just now to check the actual record for the General Sherman, so I’ve gone with your suggestion of M/S since that at least even more thoroughly militates against the common misperception that the General Sherman was a US govt ship.

Still, I doubt that it will have much impact, given the indubitable facts regarding the various proposed (Febiger’s expedition) and actual punitive undertakings (the Rodger’s Expedition that assaulted Ganghwa-do in 1871) initiated to get Korea to assume its responsibilities under existing international practice regarding the treatment of commercial shipping. The problem, of course, was that Korea was not yet part of the “international” order that (loosely) recognized and abided by such conventions. At the end of the day, Korea was forcibly coerced into such international order - the Rodger’s expedition thus being the first US act of coercion in this respect, rather than the General Sherman incursion.

You are a vicious little git. All that’s unclear is whether you are ignorant and malicious or just malicious.

The pals to which you refer came to me, not vice versa, after they had been invited by the Korean government to advise on and then to lead a development project . And one of the two principals had at the time more than fifteen years previous experience on the ground in Korea. And, oh, did I mention that he was Korean - and that the site of the project in question is still a 4 square modern city block empty lot? Quite a sandbox; maybe you can play there with your plastic bshovel and bucket. Anyway, I’ve also lived here more than 14 years. So much for the carpetbagger slur.

Your even more scurrilous imprecations about my wife would be pathetic if they weren’t bathetic. She has undergraduate degrees from first rate universities in Korea and the US and an MBA from an equally good US business school. She’s currently the CEO of the Korean subsidiary of a US firm that does USD 100 million in Korean sales. Her family is of the class that in old Korea owned slaves like I’m guessing your ancestors were.

Your vicious attitude is in my estimation shared by a very large percentage of the Korean political, professional and business elites — who are just more hypocritical about it. That mindset, and the related underlying delusions that you’ve suffered under the US colonialist boot and/or that because Koreans suffered under Japanese colonialism you ipso facto are entitled to unfair advantages over all other would-be players in the Korean sandbox — is one of the principal reasons “Why Korea Will Fail”™.

You’ve amply demonstrated in The Marmot’s Hole and here that you having nothing to offer except resentment-driven vitriol and, since this is my blog, and “the ebb and flow of the Atlantic tides, the drift of the continents, the very position of the sun along its ecliptic: THESE are just a FEW of the things I control in my world:

hasta

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