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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Taft-Katsura memorandum, Korean, historical memory, controversy

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

History

Abstract

One of the most important lessons I learned over the course of this project was that a finished research project is often dramatically different from what is originally planned. When I began consulting with my advisor about doing an ORCA project together, our initial idea was to explore how Koreans remember the history of early U.S.-Korean foreign relations from 1866-1945 with the goal of eventually publishing an article in a scholarly journal. After beginning my research in earnest, however, I soon discovered the vast number of potential sources related to this topic. Knowing that there was simply too much information to tackle this subject adequately in an article-length essay, I was compelled to narrow my research topic. In the end, my ORCA research paper focused on one specific event in early U.S.-Korean relations, the controversial Taft-Katsura Memorandum (1905). This decision to narrow my topic was difficult at first, but soon proved wise.

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