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The issue of this paper is to interpretate the ideological identity of Korean architects from 1945 to 1953, the most ideologically fluctuated era in Korean modern history. Unlike other artistic association, architectural association went through the progression of relatively simple and stable without radical split and unification in the epoch of ideological conflict. Unlike other artists, architects' ideological propensities were not clear between personal career and writings, even lacked consistency in their real life. What is more ironic, the leftists and the rightists were cooperative while the left and right wing of other artist groups were retaliatory during Korean War. These characteristics rooted in ambiguous and sometimes ambivalent identity of Korean architects who had brought up by colonial education and culture despite colonial natives. What is worse, public understanding of architecture and architect was far from creative work and social meaning. These given conditions obstructed architects to be awake to self-consciousness and to develop critical ideology. The ideological identity had handicapped influence upon architects' social position, simple-minded technician not artists with social consciousness, after Korean War.