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This paper is aimed at investigating how the notion of national flag is formed and how Taegeukgi(the flag of South Korea) and Inkonggi(the flag of North Korea) are nominated as a national flag in each country after Japanese colonial rule by comparing and discussing the red flag, Taegeukgi, and Inkonggi. The reason why we focused on these three flags is that we want to study the ideologies with which North Korea and South Korea were formed and to find whether the flag is systematized as a national symbol. In Korea, there are two national flags: one is Taegeukgi(the flag of South Korea) and the other is Inkonggi(the flag of North Korea). After emancipation, Taegeukgi and Inkonggi were formed as national flags. However, during the emancipation period, that is, in the space of emancipation the red flag, Taegeukgi, and Inkonggi exist. In the late Chosun dynasty Taegeukgi was used but the red flag was used more frequently than Taegeukgi during the emancipation period. Moreover, after the formation of South Korean government, Taegeukgi was used, which does not mean that Taegeukgi is the national flag. South Korea inspired five spirits into the design of Taegeukgi, which is derived from Chinese book ‘cwuyek’ and considered unscientific, as a plan of the establishment of new government and the Rules for the flag of the Republic of Korea was first enacted. North Korea also made a new national flag which suits a status of the new government. However, the two flag were not be free form yin yang which is considered old, conservative and unscientific. In this respect, we can identify the nationalism and commonalities of the two countries. The plan of establishment of a new nation is seen in the legal efforts to make Taegeukgi public. Taegeukgi was systematically publicised and spread by educating and hoisting the national flag and by issuing a stamp of Taegeukgi. Thus, In Korea, the national flags were adopted and officialized not based on public consensus but based on the legal and ideological process, which is different from the red flag that is used on the consensus.