State · 1948 – 1960

First Republic of Korea

A state of 1948 – 1960 — 12 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and United States Army Military Government in Korea. It was replaced by Second Republic of Korea. The atlas records 4 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 3. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

Wikidata's English label: First Republic of South Korea.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 12 years; 1948 – 1960
Rulers: 2; the President
Within it: 4; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea · replaces · 1919 – 1945
United States Army Military Government in Korea · replaces · 1945 – 1948

After it

Second Republic of Korea · replaced by · 1960 – 1961

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Syngman Rhee	1948 – 1960	12 years	ending not on record
Ho Chong	1960 – 1960	under a year	ending not on record

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1948 – 1960. Only 12 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedEmblem of South Korea (1948–1963) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lumia1234
flag, undatedFlag of South Korea (1949–1984) · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 19994 rows · 1 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres

April Revolution · unrest · 1960
Jeju uprising · atrocity · 1948 – 1949
Bodo League massacre · atrocity · 1950
Second Battle of Seoul · battle · 1950

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood12 years
stood longer than 19% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1938 – 1970, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1954, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q491559 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.