General Government of Korea (Rossiskaya Imperiya KD)

GENERAL GOVERNMENT OF KOREA

(1905-1948)

History
The General Government of Korea (Korean:한국의 일반 정부  hangug-ui ilban jeongbu, Japanese:韓国の一般政府  Kankoku no ippan seifu Russian:  генералниѣ правителтсво кореѣ) was the name of the administration entity of the Korean Península that ruled the country during the years of Russian administration. It was instated following the Russo-Japanese war that ended with a Russian victory due to the modernization of the country that Tsar Alexander II initiated.

As Japan and Russia were fighting for gaining korea and Manchuria, the war ended with a honourable defeat of Japan. It loosed all its possesions and commerce privileges in China and all the seaports that had achieved to Russia, Korea feared to be invaded by Japan and placed itself under Russian Protection, that the Russian Empire accepted. Meanwhile, Japan was given the administration of Manchuria though not the possesion by Russia.

The General Government was proclaimed on March, 6, 1903, but it was not recognized until the end of the war between Japan and Russia by the international powers.

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