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

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

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...

The Syngman Rhee Line (Korean: 이승만 라인, Hanja: 李承晩 線) was a marine boundary line established by South Korean President Syngman Rhee in his "Peace Line"...

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...

Korea was led by Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, while South Korea was led by Syngman Rhee in Seoul. Both states claimed to be the sole legitimate government of...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

감독 "이승만 미화라고? 다른 영화와 균형 맞춘 것"" ['Founding War' director "Glorifying Syngman Rhee? It's balanced with other movies."]. Joongang (in Korean). Retrieved...

– 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...

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...

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

as in Ye Wanyong of the Korean Empire. Rhee has also been used, as in Syngman Rhee and Simon Hang-bock Rhee. As with all Korean family names, the holders...

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)...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

the economy in ruins. The authoritarian First Republic of Korea led by Syngman Rhee was overthrown in the April Revolution of 1960. However, the Second Republic...

the National Assembly of South Korea, as a member of the party led by Syngman Rhee, the first president of South Korea. At the time of his election, Kim...

of the Government Organization Act, order of succession follows: 1st: Syngman Rhee 1st, 2nd & 3rd terms (served: 1948–1960) The Acting President Huh Chung...