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The result was: promoted by SL93talk 03:24, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
... that the building Seokjojeon was meant to symbolize the Korean Empire's authority, but it was completed just months before Japan annexed Korea? Source: [1] "제국의 위세를 떨치려는 의도에서 확장과 중건을 거듭했지만... 대한제국 광무 원년(1897년)에 설계가 시작되었고 1910년 8월 경술국치 3개월여 뒤 완공되었다." -> "[The palace] was expanded with the intent of raising the authority of the [Korean] Empire... Work on [Seokjojeon] began in 1897 and it was completed three months before the August 1910 signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910."