South Korean President Syngman Rhee is seated at the Presidential House in Seoul on March 17, 1955. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser ...

On the 20th, the Busan Metropolitan City Promotion Committee for Fundraising to Build the President Syngman Rhee Memorial Hall was launched, with over 400 representatives from Busan’s economy, ...

One day last spring, Arthur Dean, President Eisenhower’s special envoy to South Korea, sat in Syngman Rhee’s presidential mansion, discussing Korea’s galloping inflation. Dean thought the solution was ...

Traditionally, animals were often seen in Korea as harbingers of doom or omens of hope and good fortune. Foxes were often associated with evil acts while magpies enjoyed a more favorable image. It is ...

Without President Rhee Syng-man, would I have been able to walk here today?” Do Hyun-seung, 29, an office worker living in ...

On a sultry afternoon last week, the revolving doors whirled and a brisk little Asian stepped into the lobby of the Washington Star building. He strode over to the marble classified-ad counter and ...

No politician is without controversy. Opinions range broadly, no matter the time or the place. The first president of the Republic of Korea, Syngman Rhee, is no different from the rest. The challenge ...

A serene scene unfolded on Sunday — the 148th birthday of Korea’s founding president Syngman Rhee (1875-1965) — in the National Cemetery in southern Seoul, where he and his Austrian-born wife, ...

Lee Jae Myung, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, began to actively pursue a path of "integration" on April 28. On this day, he paid respects not only at the graves of former Presidents Kim ...

Syngman Rhee died in exile 59 years ago. Time has not tempered visceral reactions to his mention. To his supporters, he was an astute politician, savvy diplomat, staunch anti-communist and wrongly ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Focusing on the question of whether South Koreans’ notion of “we, the people of Korea” (uri taehan kungmin) included North Korean compatriots ...