1946-07-25 - 1947-12-15

Left-right coalition movement

Seoul politics1946-07 to 1947 · moderate coalition plans weaken amid hardening division politics

Other events in this phase

Korean State Formation50
  1. First U.S.-Soviet Joint Commission breaks down
  2. Rhee’s Jeongeup speech
  3. North Korean labor law promulgated
  4. Left-right coalition movementCurrent record
  5. North Korean gender-equality law
  6. North Korean nationalization of major industry
  7. Workers’ Party of North Korea formed
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Political transition context

Post-liberation Korean politics was not only celebration of independence; it combined the collapse of Japanese rule, U.S.-Soviet occupation lines, and competing claims by provisional, committee, party, and military-government actors.

The records should be read as a chain linking returning leaders, occupation forces, trusteeship debates, Joint Commission diplomacy, and the failure of coalition politics to state formation and division.

Media

Left-right coalition committee photographVisual recordLeft-right coalition committee photographPhotograph of the Left-right Coalition Committee at its dissolution in December 1947.Lyuh Woon-hyung during the Joint Commission periodVisual recordLyuh Woon-hyung during the Joint Commission periodLyuh Woon-hyung during the Joint Commission period, helping frame the left-right coalition effort.

Source Trail

Diplomatic Primary SourceFRUS · Korea, 1949Open sourceArchiveMongyang Archive · Left-right coalition committeeOpen sourceOfficial RecordNational Archives of Korea · post-liberation recordsOpen sourceOfficial RecordNational Institute of Korean History · Korean History DatabaseOpen source