The post of Governors-General of Korea (Korean: 조선총독, Hanja: 朝鮮總督, Japanese: 朝鮮総督) served as the chief representative of the Japanese government in Korea while it was held as the Japanese colony of Chōsen from 1910 to 1945. The seat of the Japanese colonial government was the Japanese General Government Building, completed in 1926.
According to Korean legal thought, de jure sovereignty was not transferred to the Emperor of Japan with the forced end of the Joseon dynasty, such that the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea became the de jure government of the Korean people from 1919 to 1948, and the foreign governors merely exercised de facto rule for the period.
After the Japanese defeat in World War II Korea came under US and Soviet control. After 1948, power passed to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.

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