During the 1920s, the Government-General constructed basic infrastructure for its colonial rule. The headquarters of the Government-General was typical of the various public offices of this period, while the Joseon Shrine represents the Shinto shrines built all over the country. The Government-General proceeded to build its headquarters and the Joseon Shrine from 1910, right after the annexation of Korea. It demonstrates that public offices and shrines were essential colonial infrastructure, especially in administrative and religious policies. Construction of offices and shrines greatly changed the Korean landscape. In the early period of colonial rule, the Japanese authorities used office buildings from the Great Han Empire. But in the 1920s and 1930s they started to build grand Western-style office buildings. Shinto shrines brought Japanese-style architecture to colonial Korea. Accordingly, in colonial Korea there were Western and Japanese-style buildings in addition to traditional Korean buildings. But most Japanese-style architecture, especially Shinto shrines, disappeared after liberation.