“‘Hang’uk pyŏnghap’ chŏnhu Mi-Il kan Miguk ŭi Han Pando ch’ioe pŏpkwŏn p’yeji kyosŏp kwa t’agyŏl” [The American-Japanese negotiations on abolishing American extraterritoriality on the Korean Peninsula and its settlement around the time of the ‘Korean-Japanese union’]

The US-Japanese Negotiation and Compromise Regarding the US Extra-territorial Rights in Korea around 1910 Japanese Annexation of Korea When the Japanese "Annexation Treaty" with Korea saw the conclusion in 1910, the American government had rights and interests such as consular jurisdiction, property ownership, mining rights, and foreign settlement etc. We can call these rights extra-territorial rights. It was natural that with the colonization of Korea, there might be the abolition of extra-territorial rights. Considering the US boon to the Japanese dominance over Korea, Japan had to deliberate on the close relationship with the US. Therefore, Japan acknowledged all the interests that the US had preserved except the consular jurisdiction. Regarding the consular jurisdiction, after sever, negotiations, the US and Japan implicitly agreed to the conclusion that even though the jurisdiction over the US citizen would go to the Japanese court, the venue would be Seoul courts rather than those of local areas. However, the US did not explicitly acknowledged the abolition of consular jurisdiction. This shows the characters and tensions of the negotiations between the two countries.