sentences:  Hague Secret Emissary Affair
  
  The Hague Secret Emissary Affair ("Heigeu teuksa sageon", 헤이그 특사사건) resulted from Korean Emperor Gojong sending confidential emissaries to the Second Peace Conference at The Hague, the Netherlands, in 1907.Following the Taft–Katsura Agreement (1905) and Japan's victory over Russia in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), Japan sought to formalize its control over the Korean Peninsula.