TY - BOOK AU - KIM Seung-young TI - Russo-Japanese rivalry over Korean buffer at the beginning of the 20th century and its implications PY - 2005/// KW - KOREA KW - HISTORY KW - RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, 1904-1905 N2 - Examines the Russo-Japanese rivalry over Korea from 1895 to the outbreak of war in 1904. Considers how and why diplomatic efforts to reach agreement on spheres of influence or to guarantee neutrality for Korea failed. The paper concludes by considering the implications of this historical episode for the Korean peninsula at the start of the 21st century ER -