Syngman Rhee, 83, a former North Korean refugee and leader for more than five decades in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and in ecumenical circles, died January 14 in Atlanta shortly after being ...

There’s a scene early in The Birth of Korea, Kim Deog-young’s new film defending the legacy of South Korea’s first president, Syngman Rhee, that may go underappreciated. In it, the 85-year-old Rhee ...

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 ...

South Koreans are generally happy to see the United States and North Korea holding summit talks, rather than exchanging threats of war, as they did in 2017. Still, the alliance between Seoul and ...

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 ...

July 19 was the 50th anniversary of the country’s first president Syngman Rhee’s passing away. After he stepped down during the April 19 Revolution in 1960, a democratization movement led by labor and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun ...

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