Fingerprints on Korea — The Irish and Scottish Connection
đŽđŞ đ´ó §ó ˘ó łó Łó ´ó ż đ°đˇ đ°đľ The Emerald & Tartan Thread Through Korea Ireland · Scotland · North & South Korea — Every Point of Contact An Irishman from Derry negotiated the first British-Korean Treaty and chose the land where the British Embassy Seoul still stands. A Scottish Gaelic speaker from Easter Ross produced the first Korean Bible, grammar, and Western history of the country — without ever setting foot in it. Scotland and Silla Korea were nodes in the same Eurasian material culture network in AD 500–900. Six IRA-affiliated members trained in a Pyongyang military camp in 1988. North Korea converted Britain's most damaging Cold War double agent — and an Irishman from Limerick broke him out of prison. Korean newspapers ran a thousand articles about the Irish War of Independence under Japanese censorship, using Ireland as a coded mirror for their own occupation. Almost none of this is widely known. This article maps the full record — from the Silk R...