<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" id="mwag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Empire of Japan">Japan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Empire" id="mwaw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Korean Empire">Korea</a> sign the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan–Korea_Treaty_of_1876" id="mwbA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876">Treaty of Kangwha</a>, which grants Japanese citizens <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritoriality" id="mwbQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Extraterritoriality">extraterritoriality</a> rights in Korea, opens three Korean ports to Japanese trade, and ends Korea's status as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tributary_state" id="mwbg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tributary state">tributary state</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty" id="mwbw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty</a> China.<sup about="#mwt75" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_26#cite_note-13" id="mwcA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwcQ">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt72" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFPrattRutt1999">Pratt, Keith; Rutt, Ricahrd (1999). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8tdcAgAAQBAJ" id="mwBqQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBqU">Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary</i></a>. Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon Press. p.<span id="mwBqY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>198. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBqc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBqg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780700704637" id="mwBqk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780700704637"><bdi id="mwBqo">9780700704637</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt72" class="Z3988" id="mwBqs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Korea%3A+A+Historical+and+Cultural+Dictionary&amp;rft.place=Richmond%2C+Surrey%2C+UK&amp;rft.pages=198&amp;rft.pub=Curzon+Press&amp;rft.date=1999&amp;rft.isbn=9780700704637&amp;rft.aulast=Pratt&amp;rft.aufirst=Keith&amp;rft.au=Rutt%2C+Ricahrd&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D8tdcAgAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+26"></span></span>