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The Korean coalition resisted Japanese occupation, on this day they proclaimed their independence from Japan.
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United States and the Soviet Union, as a result of Japan's surrender in WWII, liberated Korea from the Imperial Japanese colonial rule.
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As a result of WWII foreign ministers from the Allied nations of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain agreed to divide Korea into two separate occupation zones and to govern the nation for five years
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The government of South Korea was officially founded.
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The beginning of the Korean war. Communist North Korea invaded Democratic South.
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An armistice was signed by the United Nations, Korea and China to stop the war but it has not officially ended because a peace treaty has not yet been signed.
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The Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty created the Southwest Asia Treaty Organization to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.
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The first Korean Stock Exchange was opened
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Japan signed a peace treaty with South Korea paying $500 million in compensation for wartime excesses, colonial era claims and claims for the women used as sex slaves by the Japanese.
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Samsung Electronics were created, beginning with transistor radios.
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Hyundai began to work in the Korean town of Ulsan on a shipyard.
