Discovering The Unknown Island Where US Pirates Attacked — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'm flying my drone across 5 miles of
2. 0:01open ocean to try to find the Korean
3. 0:03Island the United States invaded in 1871
4. 0:06when I came to Korea my girlfriend's
5. 0:08parents told me about something called
6. 0:09shinmi yongo apparently it's common
7. 0:11knowledge here that 79 years before the
8. 0:14Korean War the United States invaded
9. 0:16this decent sized island in the middle
10. 0:17of the Korean Peninsula the year after
11. 0:19America abolished slavery a US ship
12. 0:21filled with pirates and kidnappers
13. 0:23illegally sailed up this River to try to
14. 0:25conduct trade with the locals but the
15. 0:27Koreans have just seen the Brits Opium
16. 0:29Wars in China so they said Yanks get out
17. 0:32of here the Yanks said no way Jose on
18. 0:35and they continued up the river the
19. 0:37American ship accidentally ran ground
20. 0:39and got stuck so they sent out a dinghy
21. 0:41and took hostages to get a ransom of
22. 0:43rice golden Jin sank the locals
23. 0:46understandably were pissed so they
24. 0:47started shooting flaming arrows at the
25. 0:49boat the crew freaked out and retaliated
26. 0:51by shooting 12lb cannons at the
27. 0:53civilians on Shore they killed seven
28. 0:56before the entire boat burned down and
29. 0:58the entire crew was killed in the in
30. 1:00chaos apparently Korea thought these
31. 1:02male faces were French or British so
32. 1:04they never told America what had
33. 1:05happened on June 10th 1871 Uncle Sam
34. 1:09came knocking for Revenge with 650 armed
35. 1:12Sailors and five warships Korea tried to
36. 1:15smooth things over by offering three
37. 1:17cows 50 chickens and a th000 eggs but I
38. 1:20guess the Americans on board were card
39. 1:21carrying P members or something because
40. 1:23they were not having it hundreds of
41. 1:25soldiers and Marines stormed captured
42. 1:28and destroyed these three forts along
43. 1:30this River the Americans killed
44. 1:32somewhere around 350 Korean soldiers and
45. 1:35captured a handful of prisoners to use
46. 1:37them as bargaining chips the United
47. 1:38States was shocked that their violent
48. 1:40Invasion didn't result in a meaningful
49. 1:42Trade Agreement or peace deal so they
50. 1:44tried to use the prisoners to coer the
51. 1:46Koreans into diplomatic relations the
52. 1:48issue was the Koreans didn't want their
53. 1:50injured prisoners back saying that they
54. 1:52would just be punished for being cowards
55. 1:54so America ended up releasing them
56. 1:56anyway and dipped out after gaining
57. 1:58literally nothing from this act of
58. 2:00aggression