Chemulpo

Chemulpo, a town on the west coast of Corea, 25 miles by road WSW. of the capital, Sōul. It is one of the three treaty ports opened in 1883 to foreign commerce, the volume of which has since steadily advanced, in spite of the drawbacks resulting from the great difference between high and low water here (33 feet), and the want of wharves. The imports attain a value of 3,500,000 in some years; the exports, 1,500,000. Pop. 30,000; the bulk of the 3000 foreigners are Japanese. Small steamers owned by Japanese run to Sōul in summer, and a railway is projected; and Chemulpo is connected by telegraph both with China and Japan.