Later he was stationed in Korea and proposed to establish Byeolgigun (a modernized special military force) to modernize the Korean army, but as a result the Jingo Incident occurred, in which he barely escaped alive from the legation assaulted by rioters and returned to Japan.
その後朝鮮に駐在し朝鮮軍近代化の為別技軍を提案するが、それが原因となった壬午事変では暴徒に包囲された公使館を脱出して命からがら帰国した。