On this day, 9 September 1945, in the wake of World War II, the US occupation administration in Korea announced that the Japanese colonial government would remain intact. After massive outcry, they replaced some Japanese bureaucrats with Americans, but enlisted the deposed Japanese officials as advisers.
Pictured: Koreans protest against the move, 1945
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