ABSTRACT
The Japanese at no time encouraged the development of adequate schools for the training of the scientists, engineers, and administrators, nor even of the skilled workers, required to operate the economic establishment in Korea. From the very beginning of the occupation, Korean educators were given an active responsibility in the institution of reforms. Along with the removal of all Japanese from the positions they held in Korea went the problem of divesting them of their ownership of Korean property. The Oriental Development Company became the New Korea Company and an arm of the Department of Agriculture, and continued to operate not only its own varied interests but, in December 1945, was designated as the manager of all former Japanese farm lands. The Western practice of hiring or dismissing labor in accordance with changes in output was not strictly followed, since in Korea labor was the cheapest production factor.
