Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea

Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea

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The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (Korean: 대한민국 임시 정부 ) was founded on 11 April 1919 in Shanghai and organized the resistance against the Japanese occupation lasted since 1905.

History

Due to the movement of the first founded in March next to the provisional government set up in Shanghai two more. A March 21 in Vladivostok and on April 21 in Seoul. Ahn Chang -ho, it was thanks to them that these other merged with Shanghai in August. Rhee Syng -man was elected the first president. Two-time president was also Kim Gu and Kim Kyu -sik vice president. The Provisional Government had to flee in 1932 from Shanghai to Hangzhou, and came after several moves 1940, came to Chongqing. Here, the government of the Republic of China moved to Chiang Kai- shek in 1938, returned as a result of the Chinese Civil War and the war against Japan. After independence from Japan in 1945, the Provisional Government in exile moved back to the Korean peninsula in the occupied by the U.S. military southern part of the country. Last president and first president of the Republic of Korea was founded in 1948, the government took the place of the Provisional Government, was again Rhee Syng -man.

Korean Liberation Army

Armed wing of the Provisional Government was the Korean Liberation Army ( Kor. 한국 광복군, Hanja韩国 光复 军, rev. Hanguk Gwangbokgun ), which was founded after moving to Chongqing on September 17, 1940. On December 9, 1941 was a declaration of war against Japan. 1942, a military agreement with China's armed forces has been closed, establishing joint operations were performed, followed by an agreement in 1943 with the British armed forces. They took part in other on the side of the British troops in Burma and India in the fight against the Japanese forces. Leading members of the Liberation Army were Ji Cheong- cheon and Lee Beom -seok, of which the first prime minister after the founding of the Republic of Korea.

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