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 ...

The territory of the Republic of Korea shall consist of the Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands. North Korean ...

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 ...

After three months as a refugee in his own country, Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea, had come home to Seoul. He found his official residence littered with the midden of the routed ...

Syngman Rhee is a major figure in modern Korean history and a continuous source of debate and historical research. Several publishers have recently released books on Rhee, the nation's first president ...

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 ...

The author is an editorial writer of the JoongAng Ilbo. Discussions on a plan to build a memorial hall to commemorate Syngman Rhee (1875-1965), an independence fighter who served as the first ...

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon endorsed the establishment of a memorial for South Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee, as controversy rages about the documentary film “The Birth of Korea,” which retrospects ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent contentious meeting with President Donald Trump raised eyebrows among many Americans. Vice President JD Vance called the Ukrainian president ...