Syngman Rhee (Korean: 이승만; Hanja: 李承晚, pronounced [iː.sɯŋ.man]; 26 March 1875 – 19 July 1965) was a South Korean politician who served as the first president...

The Syngman Rhee Line (Korean: 이승만 라인) was a marine boundary line established by South Korean President Syngman Rhee in his "Peace Line" (Korean: 평화선;...

Syngman Rhee (March 25, 1931 – January 14, 2015) was a Presbyterian minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church...

was the political ideology of South Korea under its first President, Syngman Rhee. The Ilminist principle has been likened by contemporary scholars to...

1945, becoming the first independent republican government in Korea. Syngman Rhee became the first president of South Korea following the May 1948 general...

North Korea was led by Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, and South Korea by Syngman Rhee in Seoul; both claimed to be the sole legitimate government of all of...

against President Syngman Rhee and the First Republic from April 11 to 26, 1960, which led to Rhee's resignation. Protests opposing Rhee were started by...

Censorship in South Korea is implemented by various laws that were included in the constitution as well as acts passed by the National Assembly over the...

protests by force.: 166–167  The First Republic of Korea under President Syngman Rhee escalated the suppression of the uprising from August 1948, declaring...

Civilian governments are conventionally numbered from the First Republic of Syngman Rhee to the contemporary Sixth Republic. The First Republic, arguably democratic...

Rhee (born 1961), American physician and US Navy veteran Phillip Rhee (born 1960), South Korean-American actor and martial-arts master Syngman Rhee (1875–1965)...

were held in South Korea on 5 August 1952. The result was a victory for Syngman Rhee, who won 74.6% of the vote. Voter turnout was 88.1%. The election was...

by President Syngman Rhee, an anti-Communist who used the Korean War to consolidate a monopoly on political power in the republic. Rhee represented the...

the vote. A candidate required two-thirds of the votes cast to win. Syngman Rhee was elected with 180 votes, and took over the government to oversee the...

presidency is vacant or the president is permanently incapacitated. 1st: Syngman Rhee 1st, 2nd & 3rd terms (served: 1948–1960) Acting President Ho Chong (served:...

First Lady of South Korea, from 1948 to 1960, as the second wife of Syngman Rhee, the first president of the Republic of Korea. According to birth documents...

Korea since the office was formally established on 24 July 1948, when Syngman Rhee took office after being elected by the Constituent National Assembly...

May 1956. The result was a victory for Syngman Rhee, who won 70.0% of the vote. Voter turnout was 94.4%. Rhee, who at that time held a virtual monopoly...

Union, UN-supervised elections were held in the US-occupied south only. Syngman Rhee won the election, while Kim Il Sung consolidated his position as the...

for Korean independence included the conservative and U.S.-educated Syngman Rhee, who lobbied the U.S. government, and the Communist Kim Il Sung, who...

Special Adviser to President Syngman Rhee, mediating on behalf of the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency between Rhee and Kim Ku. Goodfellow died...

killed. The massacre was committed by the government forces of president Syngman Rhee and falsely blamed on the communists led by North Korean leader Kim Il...

competed for power in what would become South Korea. On 15 August 1948, Syngman Rhee, who had been the first president of the Provisional Government, became...

founded during the April Revolution mass protests against President Syngman Rhee, succeeding the First Republic and establishing a parliamentary government...

Politics in the South was more tumultuous, but the strongly anti-Communist Syngman Rhee emerged as the most prominent politician. The US government took the...

he served as the vice president of the First Republic of Korea. When Syngman Rhee's government was ousted by the student-led pro-democracy uprising of April...

– May 8, 1951). He was the leader of Liberal Party and supporter of Syngman Rhee (as a President). By the 1954 election, Lee became the most prominent...

documentary film directed and written by Kim Deog-young, depicting the life of Syngman Rhee, the South Korea's first president. The film was released on February...

legislature and the interim government were headed by Kim Kyu-shik and Syngman Rhee, respectively, and the elections for which were met with a large uprising...

decided to support armistice talks, although President Rhee continued to oppose them. Like Syngman Rhee, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung also sought complete...