Homer Hulbert

Homer Bezaleel Hulbert was an American missionary, journalist and political activist who advocated for the independence of Korea.

Hulbert was born in New Haven, Vermont, in 1863 of Calvin and Mary Hulbert. His mother Mary Elizabeth Woodward Hulbert was a granddaughter of Mary Wheelock, daughter of Eleazar Wheelock, the founder of Dartmouth College. After graduating from Dartmouth, Hulbert attended Union Theological Seminary in 1884. He originally went to Korean Empire in 1886 with two other instructors, Delzell A. Bunker and George W. Gilmore, to teach English at the Royal English School. In 1901 he founded the magazine The Korea Review. Before 1905 he was positive towards Japanese involvement in Korea, seeing them as an agent of reform, as opposed to what he saw as reactionary Russia. He changed his position in September 1905, when he criticized Japanese plans for turning Korean Empire into a protectorate. He resigned his position as a teacher in the public middle school, and in October 1905 he went to the United States as an emissary of Emperor Go Jong, protesting Japans actions. After returning to Korean Empir

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