(From left) President Syngman Rhee, General Douglas MacArthur, and General John Hodge, MacArthur’s representative and military governor of South Korea under the United States Army Military Government in Korea, attend the foundation ceremony for the Republic of Korea at the Capitol Building plaza on Aug. 15, 1948. Most Koreans know that Aug. 15 is the day when the country was liberated from Japanese colonial rule in 1945 but not that it is also the day the Republic of Korea was founded in 1948, a poll suggests. But most were in favor of giving more meaning to the date as the nation’s Founding Day in the future and were proud of the history of the republic.

Seoul, Korea.

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