📅 11 April 1919
Korean activists established a provisional government in exile after the March First uprising. Its founders sought to coordinate independence work across Korea and diaspora communities. The government...
📅 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...
📅 25 June 1950
North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel and attacked the Republic of Korea. The war followed the division of a peninsula liberated from Japanese colonial rule into rival governments under...
📅 25 June 1950
North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel, beginning a war on a peninsula divided by U.S. and Soviet occupation after Japan’s defeat. Koreans had not chosen the division, and the war drew in...
