1948 in South Korea

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Events from the year 1948 in

South Korea
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Incumbents

United States Army Military Government in Korea

Republic of Korea

  • President: Syngman Rhee (starting 15 August)
  • Vice President: Yi Si-yeong (starting 24 July)
  • Prime Minister:
    Yi Pom-sok
    (starting 31 July)

Events

  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the First Republic of Korea – both claiming to be the legitimate government of the entire Korean peninsula.[1]
  • UNCOK visits South Korea.[2]
  • January 30 - South Korea sends ski athletes for the 1948 Winter Olympics.[3]
  • UNCOK, now known as the 2/7 incident happened.[4]
  • February 26 - United Nations resolved that the votes will go on only in South Korea.[5]
  • March – land reform is enacted as a short-term measure to cease the spread of Communist influence in the U.S. zone driven by the Communist threat and expanding land redistribution in North Korea in the spring of 1946.[6]
  • Cheju-do (Jejudo) Island in South Korea. Government policemen fired at the demonstrators on Cheju-do (Jejudo) Island; communist rebels attacked 12 police stations in response, which resulted in approximately 50 government policemen fatalities.[7]
  • left-wing political groups. About 30 United Nations observers watched the elections from May 7 to May 11, 1948. About 400 U.S. military officers and government officials also watched the elections. There were approximately 600 fatalities in election-related violence between March and May 1948.[9]
  • Rhee Syngman and Yi Si-Yeong (independence fighters) elected as South Korea's first President and Vice President.[10]
  • August 12, 1948 – March 21, 1949 – John J. Muccio served as a United States Special Representative to Korea.[11]
  • August 15 – Republic of Korea (ROK) was formally established as a liberal democracy. This inherited the legitimacy of the PGK. The United Nations recognized the ROK as the only legitimate government in Korea.[12] The Provisional Military Advisory Group (PMAG) is established by the U.S. government which "consisted of 100 U.S. military advisers commanded by Brigadier General William Lynn Roberts to train the South Korean military."[13]
  • September 9, 1948 – Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was proclaimed as a communist country; Kim Il-sung, (officer in the Soviet Russian Army) became the President.[14]
  • 1948 – 1954 – regime of Syngman Rhee was responsible for at least 200,000 deaths through political murder and massacre; about 30,000 of those were killed due to the suppression brought upon by the Cheju Rebellion.[15]

Births

Deaths

  • November 16-Min Yeong-chan:Korean politician. Also was an official during the Japanese colonial days.[16]
  • December 10-
    Na Hye-sok
    :Korean painter

See also

References

  1. ^ "Korean War conflict, 1948–1953".
  2. ^ "歡迎(환영) 獨立朝鮮誕生(독입조선탄생)의前夜(전야)".
  3. ^ "유엔朝鮮委員會(조선위원회) 金性洙氏(김성수씨)와協議(협의) 長時間意見交換(장시간의견교환) 第四次(제사차)".
  4. ^ "이칠총파업(二七總罷業)".
  5. ^ "小總會(소총회)의朝鮮問題討議本格化(조선문제토의본격화)".
  6. doi:10.1162/JCWS_a_00639
    .
  7. ^ "South Korea (1948–present)".
  8. ^ "East Asian History and Culture Review".
  9. ^ "South Korea (1948–present)".
  10. ^ "East Asian History and Culture Review".
  11. ^ "South Korea (1948–present)".
  12. ^ "East Asian History and Culture Review".
  13. ^ "South Korea (1948–present)".
  14. ^ "East Asian History and Culture Review".
  15. ^ "Transition to a democracy and transformation into an economic powerhouse".
  16. ^ "민영찬(閔泳瓚)".


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