Although the history of the island Ulleungdo began with a kingdom called Usan-guk during the Silla Dynasty, the history of the county Ulleung-gun began in the 19th century. Before counties and townships were officially set up at Ulleungdo, the island’s administrative system underwent several changes. When the decision was made to develop Ulleungdo in 1882, a chief (島長) was appointed to the island. Then, the Governor of Pyeonghae (平海郡守) also held the position as advisor of Ulleungdo (鬱陵島僉使), and later on, Wolsongmanho (越松萬戶) also served as chief of the island. In 1895, a chief of Ulleungdo (鬱陵島長) was separately appointed as a full-time official. In March 1900, the title of “dogam” (島監) was renamed as “gammu” (監務), and a few months later in October, Uldo-gun was set up at Ulleungdo and Bae Gye-ju was appointed as the county’s first governor. Prior to his appointment, Bae Gye-ju had been living as a fisherman at Ulleungdo since the island was being developed until he became its first fulltime chief in 1895. He reported to the Royal Court that the Japanese had been unlawfully deforesting zelkova on Ulleungdo and tried to stop them. He actually traveled to Japan, hired a Japanese lawyer as his attorney to file a lawsuit against such indiscriminate felling of zelkova, and ended up winning the lawsuit. In August, 1898, Bae Gye-ju found out that Yoshio Mantaro (吉尾万太郞) from Japan’s Shimane Prefecture had made lumberjacks log zelkova and depart from the shore of Do-dong, so he sealed a statement and filed a lawsuit in the Sakai (境) district court of Japan. Thereafter, he went to Tokyo and asked Park Young-hyo (朴泳孝) to introduce him as a governor of Joseon who deserves to be treated with due respect by the Sakai (境) district court, to which the court obliged. Bae Gye-ju triumphantly tried to confiscate Yoshio Mantaro’s lumber, but reconciled with Yoshio Mantaro after interrogations and received a compensation worth half of the total zelkova exported. That was the first lawsuit Bae Gye-ju won. Before leaving Japan, Bae Gye-ju made a request to the Sakai police station to prevent the Japanese from coming to Ulleungdo every year and committing illegal acts that harmed people there such as threatening them with bayonets, harassing women, and robbing their goods. After returning home, he worked under titles such as dogam and gammu, and when Woo Yong-jeong visited to inspect Ulleungdo, he reported and presented evidence of all the unlawful acts the Japanese committed around island. When Bae Gye-ju was appointed as Ulleungdo’s third governor, he tried to set up a basic framework for ruling the island by drafting the Uldogun section. The Uldo-gun section contained principles for ruling Ulleung-gun that Bae Gye-ju found essential from personally serving as Ulleung-gun’s dogam or governor. The Uldo-gun section is an administrative order that consists of the seven paragraphs to govern the people of Ulleungdo, which has been announced through the Dongnae internal review (東萊監理) in September, 1899, and the ten articles from the notification Woo Yong-jeong announced during his inspection of Ulleung-gun in 1900. When Bae Gye-ju went to Japan, he met the Korean minister in Tokyo. Bae Gye-ju asked him for help to establish a school on the island, promote silkworm farming and salt manufacturing, and improve the service ship running between mainland Joseon and Ulleungdo. These were also the same issues he had considered as priorities while drafting the Uldo-gun section, which shows how much he cared about them. Despite having been appointed as the island’s third governor, the Uldo-gun section could not be implemented immediately because Bae Gye-ju was dismissed from his post for becoming involved in several lawsuits. Even after Woo Yong-jeong’s visit to Ulleungdo, Bae Gye-ju continued to report that the Japanese’ plundering grew worse and asked for support to protect the island because it was an area vital to Korea (大韓).