{
  "id": 19130787,
  "title": "When a missionary, spy and friend of opium traders visited Korea",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/when-a-missionary-spy-and-friend-of-opium-traders-visited-korea",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-09T10:02:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/globalcommunity/20261109/when-a-missionary-spy-and-friend-of-opium-traders-visited-korea"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The 19th century saw a series of Western explorers visit Korea, with their experiences recorded in memoirs. French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse passed by Jeju Island and Ulleung Island in 1787, while British captain William Robert Broughton landed near Busan in 1797. British captain Basil Hall had a more detailed 1816 visit to Korea's west coast, describing a largely positive encounter that included Korea's first English lesson. However, not all visitors held a positive view. In 1832, British ship Lord Amherst visited Korea with German Lutheran minister Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, who had trained as a missionary and sought to open Korea to foreign trade and Christianity.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}