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United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea

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World War I 📍 South Korea

United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea

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Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel

📅 15 August 1948

The Republic of Korea government was inaugurated south of the 38th parallel after UN-supervised elections in the South. Korea had been under Japanese colonial rule until 1945; the postwar division was...