The famous architect and architectural historian Itō Chūta, also responsible for Meiji Jingū, contributed to its planning.

Some people identified Dangun with Susanoo-no-Mikoto, the government not wanting to take a stand on this enshrined the generic Okunitama at Chōsen Jingu so believers could have their own interpretations.

[5] Ogasawara Shozo [ja] was a strong advocate of these positions and his advocacy was associated with the enshrinement of Okunitama at both Chōsen Jingu, and Keijō Shrine.

[5] Ogasawara [ja] also proposed a system where Japanese people in the colonies were seen as Amatsukami and natives were seen as Kunitsukami.

[6] The shrine was considered by the United States Army Military Government in Korea to be "enemy property".