Question

Horace Newton Allen reformed the Chejungwon hospital under this ruler, whose regent Heungseon Daewongun led the development of a bulletproof vest. For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this ruler who names a period of westernizing reforms that took off after the assassination of Queen Min in 1895. This final Joseon king proclaimed the Korean Empire.
ANSWER: Gojong [or Kojong; or Gwangmu Emperor or Gwangmuje or Kwangmuje; accept Gwangmu reforms] (The bulletproof vest was called the myeonje baegab.)
[10h] Despite abolishing hereditary classes, Gojong’s Gwangmu reforms built on the expertise of this technocratic social class that included interpreters, doctors, and lawyers. Its station was just below that of yangban.
ANSWER: jungin [or chungin]
[10e] Hyeon Chae was among the jungin who produced these educational items. In Japan, nationalists have challenged the portrayal of wartime atrocities in these things such as sexual slavery of Korean “comfort women.”
ANSWER: textbooks [or schoolbooks; accept history textbooks or history books; prompt on books]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2412.5092%25%8%

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Georgia Tech AChicago A1001020
Claremont APenn State A001010
UC Berkeley BColumbia B001010
Ohio State AFlorida A1001020
MIT AHarvard A001010
Indiana AColumbia A001010
Iowa State AYale B001010
Chicago BMaryland A001010
McGill AGeorgia Tech B001010
Michigan AVanderbilt A001010
Minnesota BRutgers B001010
NYU AFlorida B0000
North Carolina AMinnesota A1001020
Imperial APurdue A001010
Stanford ADuke A001010
UC Berkeley AToronto A001010
WUSTL BSouth Carolina A001010
Yale ABrown A001010
Northwestern AChicago C1001020
Cornell AWUSTL A1010020
Texas ACornell B001010
Johns Hopkins AHouston A10101030
Illinois ARutgers A001010
Virginia APenn A001010