However, they were all expelled due to a protest they organised in 1905 over the unfair signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, which effectively made the Korean Empire a protectorate of the Empire of Japan.
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The anthem was first commissioned by Emperor Gojong in 1901 and presented to the Korean court on 1 July 1902, by German composer Franz Eckert, who happened to be the director of the Korean Empire's military band at the time.
Korean Empire passport, issued by the former Korean Empire in the early 1900s