Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1521-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1521-2025
Research article
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04 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 04 Sep 2025

Two severe famines (1809–1810, 1814–1815) in Korea during the last stage of the Little Ice Age

Sung Woo Kim

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Short summary
From the eruption of an unknown volcano in 1809 until that of Tambora in April 1815, large and small volcanoes erupted in succession, causing various climatic changes around the Earth. During this period, the monsoon climate zone of East Asia, including Korea, had a very dry summer, and the rice yield was very poor, which resulted in two severe famines that lasted until early summer in the following years.
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