an ideological conflict in Korea that would be similar to what other postwar colonial peoples had to experience. The problems of how to overcome and liquidate colonial conditions accumulated during the four decades of Japanese domination also faced the people of Korea. Liberation did not bring the independence that the Koreans had fought for so hard but instead was the inception of ideological conflict in a partitioned nation. A divided Korea was occupied by the United states and the Soviet Union, and this fact frustrated the efforts of Koreans to establish an independent government. This also was the occasion for the transplantation of two conflicting ideologies to the south
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