A palace finished before annexationSourced
A palace to project imperial power.
Annexation came months after it was finished.
Seokjojeon in Seoul's Deoksugung Palace was a Western-style building intended to display the Korean Empire's modernity and authority. It was completed around April 1910; Japan annexed Korea just months later. It now houses a museum of the empire's history.
The building was finished
as the state it represented disappeared.
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