광복절에 태국기 - South Korean flag on Korean Independence Day
Originally uploaded by David_Harris
August 15th, 1945 is the day Korea official gained its independence from Japan at the end of WWII, the same day Japan surrendered to the U.S.. The South Korean government was created 3 years later on the same date in 1948.
I like to think of today as the day that saw the beginning of a very strong alliance and relationship between Korea and the United States that continues to this day, 63 years later.
This picture is of a South Korean flag flying just outside our apartment window. We are flying the exact same flag (with same flagpole !), but it’s difficult to get a clean, “face-on” shot of our flag from our own window.
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Joop 08.15.08 at 10:55 am
I didn’t know the government was founded three years later, thank you!
Carol 08.18.08 at 12:56 pm
Interesting coincidence: India’s Independence Day is August 15 [1947] as well.
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance….. We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again.”
I suppose similar sentiments would have been felt by the Koreans as well.
Granbee 08.31.08 at 12:41 am
How terriffic–a beautiful coincidence that both David and Carol are currently living in Asian countries celebrating their independence on the same day! May the United States soon experience a corporate utterance of parts of its soul long suppressed by itself!
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