South Korean Politicians Cannot Agree on What Day the Country Was Founded

It is pretty sad when politicians can’t even agree on what day their country was founded:

Rival parties clashed over a long-running controversy over the founding day of the Republic of Korea Wednesday as the country marked the 73rd anniversary of its liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule.

Conservatives have long claimed that the country was founded on Aug. 15, 1948, when the South Korean government was launched after Korea was liberated from Japan’s control in 1945 and then divided into the capitalist South and the communist North.

But the liberal bloc says that April 13, 1919, when the Korean government-in-exile was established in Shanghai, should be regarded as the day of the republic’s founding.

The ruling Democratic Party (DP) said that the conservatives’ claim is an outdated idea based on ideological division. But the main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) insisted that to deny the country’s founding in 1948 is to disavow South Korea’s legitimacy.  [Yonhap]

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