Yukichi FUKUZAWA and his colleagues, who had kept supporting Ok-gyun KIM and the Progressive Party, came to give up Korea and China completely as hopeless due to this affair.
金玉均ら開化派を支え続けてきた福澤諭吉らであったが、この事件で朝鮮・中国に対していわば完全に匙を投げてしまうこととなる。