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By 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. The Japanese ''Governors'' were succeeded by de facto Soviet and U.S. military administrators of Korea who exercised de facto rule from 1945 to 1948. After 1948, power passed to the Democratic People's Republic Of Korea and the Republic Of Korea . DE FACTO RESIDENTS-GENERAL IN KOREA From 1905 to 1910 Korea was a protectorate of Japan and Japanese interests were represented by a Resident-General . #Prince Ito Hirobumi (1905–1909) # Viscount Sone (1909) #Count Terauchi Masatake (1909–1910) DE FACTO GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF KOREA The de facto Governor–General was based at the Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul . #Count Terauchi Masatake (1910–1916) #Count Yoshimichi Hasegawa (1916–1919) # Viscount Saito (1919–1927) #General Kazushige Ugaki (1927) #General Hanzo Yamanashi (1927–1929) #Viscount Saito (second time 1929–1931) #General Kazushige Ugaki (second time 1931–1936) #General Jiro Minami (1936–1942) # Kuniaki Koiso (1942–1944) # Nobuyuki Abe (1944–1945) DE FACTO GOVERNORS OF KOREA After 1945 the de facto Japanese Governorate was succeeded by a de facto U.S.–Soviet Joint Occupation under two de facto military Governors of Korea (U.S. and Soviet). Soviet # Ivan Chistyakov (1945–1947) # Gennady Korotkov (1947–1948)
United States # Archibald V. Arnold (1945) # Archer L. Lerch (1945–1947) # William F. Dean (1947–1948)
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