Professor Youngchul Jun

William Franklin Sands was the highest-ranking foreign adviser in the Korean government in the twilight years of the Choson dynasty. His book, entitled Undiplomatic Memories, first published in 1930, has been the seemingly definitive account of his life and career in Seoul. However, his papers paint a much more complex picture of the events in Korea that Sands participated in leading up to the Russo-Japanese War.