Syngman Rhee
Syngman Rhee | |
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1st President of South Korea | |
In office 24 July 1948 – 26 April 1960 | |
Prime Minister | See list
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Vice President |
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Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Korean Provisional Government |
In office 11 September 1919 – 23 March 1925 | |
Prime Minister |
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Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Park Eunsik |
Personal details | |
Born | Rhee Syngman 26 March 1875 Nungnae-dong, Taegyong-ri, Masan-myon, Pyongsan County, Hwanghae, Joseon (now Pongchon County, North Korea) |
Died | 19 July 1965 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. | (aged 90)
Resting place | Seoul National Cemetery |
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Political party | Liberal (1951–1961) |
Other political affiliations | National Association (1946–1951) |
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Korean name | |
Hangul | 이승만 / 리승만 |
Hanja | 李承晩 |
Revised Romanization | I Seungman / Ri Seungman |
McCune–Reischauer | I Sŭngman / Ri Sŭngman |
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Hangul | 우남 |
Hanja | 雩南 |
Revised Romanization | Unam |
McCune–Reischauer | Unam |
Syngman Rhee (
Born in
As president, Rhee continued his hardline
After the fighting ended, South Korea's economy lagged behind North Korea's and was heavily reliant on US aid. After being re-elected in 1956, he pushed to modify the constitution to remove the two-term limit, despite opposition protests. He was reelected uncontested in March 1960, after his opponent Chough Pyung-ok died from cancer before the election took place. After Rhee's ally Lee Ki-poong won the corresponding vice-presidential election by a wide margin, the opposition rejected the result as rigged, which triggered protests. These escalated into the student-led April Revolution, in which police shot demonstrators in Masan. The resulting scandal caused Rhee to resign on 26 April, ushering in the Second Republic of Korea. Despite this, protesters continued to converge on the presidential palace, leading to the CIA covertly evacuating him on 28 April by helicopter. He spent the rest of his life in exile in Honolulu, Hawaii, and died of a stroke in 1965.
Early life and career
Early life
Syngman Rhee was born on 26 March 1875 in Daegyeong, a village in Pyeongsan County, Hwanghae Province, Joseon.[6][7][8][9] Rhee was the third but only surviving son out of three brothers and two sisters (his two older brothers both died in infancy) in a rural family of modest means.[6] Rhee's family traced its lineage back to King Taejong of Joseon. He was a 16th-generation descendant of Grand Prince Yangnyeong through his second son, Yi Heun who was known as Jangpyeong Dojeong (장평도정;長平都正).[10] This case makes him a distant relative of the mid-Joseon military officer, Yi Sun-sin (not be confused with Admiral Yi Sun-sin). His mother was a member of Gimhae Kim clan.
In 1877, at the age of two, Rhee and his family moved to
Independence activities
Rhee became involved in
After entering civil service, Rhee was implicated in a plot to remove King Gojong from power through the recruitment of
Political activities at home and abroad
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In 1904, Rhee was released from prison at the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War with the help of Min Young-hwan.[6] In November 1904, with the help of Min Yeong-hwan and Han Gyu-seol (한규설; 韓圭卨), Rhee moved to the United States. In August 1905, Rhee and Yun Byeong-gu (윤병구; 尹炳求)[11] met with the Secretary of State John Hay and US President Theodore Roosevelt at peace talks in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and attempted unsuccessfully to convince the US to help preserve independence for Korea.[14]
Rhee continued to stay in the United States; this move has been described as an "exile".[13] He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from George Washington University in 1907, and a Master of Arts from Harvard University in 1908.[6][10] In 1910,[6] he obtained a PhD from Princeton University[8][9] with the thesis "Neutrality as influenced by the United States" (미국의 영향하에 발달된 국제법상 중립).[11]
In August 1910, Rhee returned to Japanese-occupied Korea.[11][note 2] He served as a YMCA coordinator and missionary.[15][16] In 1912, Rhee was implicated in the 105-Man Incident,[11] and was shortly arrested.[6] However, he fled to the United States in 1912[8] with M. C. Harris's rationale that Rhee was going to participate in the general meeting of Methodists in Minneapolis as the Korean representative.[11][note 3]
In the United States, Rhee attempted to convince
Following the March 1st Movement in March 1919, Rhee discovered that he was appointed to the positions of foreign minister for the Korean National Assembly (a group in Vladivostok), prime minister for the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai, and a position equivalent to president for the Hanseong Provisional Government . In June, in the acting capacity of the President of the Republic of Korea, he notified the prime ministers and the chairmen of peace conferences of Korea's independence. On 25 August, Rhee established the Korean Commission to America and Europe (구미위원부; 歐美委員部) in Washington, DC. On 6 September, Rhee discovered that he had been appointed acting president for the Provisional Government in Shanghai.[8][9] From December 1920 to May 1921, he moved to Shanghai and was the acting president for the Provisional Government.[11]
However, Rhee failed to efficiently act in the capacity of Acting President due to conflicts inside the provisional government in Shanghai. In October 1920, he returned to the US to participate in the Washington Naval Conference. During the conference, he attempted to set the problem of Korean independence as part of the agenda and campaigned for independence but was unsuccessful.[6][11] In September 1922, he returned to Hawaii to focus on publication, education, and religion. In November 1924, Rhee was appointed the position of president for life in the Korean Comrade Society (대한인동지회; 大韓人同志會).[11]
In March 1925, Rhee was impeached as the president of the Provisional Government in Shanghai over allegations of misuse of power[17] and was removed from office. Nevertheless, he continued to claim the position of president by referring to the Hanseong Provisional Government and continued independence activities through the Korean Commission to America and Europe. In the beginning of 1933, he participated in the League of Nations conference in Geneva to bring up the question of Korean independence.[11]
In November 1939, Rhee and his wife left Hawaii for Washington, DC.[18] He focused on writing the book Japan Inside Out and published it during the summer of 1941. With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the consequent Pacific War, which began in December 1941, Rhee used his position as the chairman of the foreign relations department of the provisional government in Chongqing to convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States Department of State to approve the existence of the Korean provisional government. As part of this plan, he cooperated with anti-Japan strategies conducted by the US Office of Strategic Services. In 1945, he participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization as the leader of the Korean representatives to request the participation of the Korean provisional government.[11]
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Rhee in 1905 dressed to meet Theodore Roosevelt
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Rhee and Vice President of theKorean Provisional Government Kim Kyu-sikin 1919
Presidency (1948–1960)
Return to Korea and rise to power
After the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945,[19] Rhee was flown to Tokyo aboard a US military aircraft.[20] Over the objections of the Department of State, the US military government allowed Rhee to return to Korea by providing him with a passport in October 1945, despite the refusal of the Department of State to issue Rhee with a passport.[21] The British historian Max Hastings wrote that there was "at least a measure of corruption in the transaction" as the US OSS agent Preston Goodfellow who provided Rhee with the passport that allowed him to return to Korea was apparently promised by Rhee that if he came to power, he would reward Goodfellow with commercial concessions."[21] Following the independence of Korea and a secret meeting with Douglas MacArthur, Rhee was flown in mid-October 1945 to Seoul aboard MacArthur's personal airplane, The Bataan.[20]
After the return to Korea, he assumed the posts of president of the Independence Promotion Central Committee (독립촉성중앙위원회; 獨立促成中央協議會), chairman of the Korean People's Representative Democratic Legislature, and president of the Headquarters for Unification (민족통일총본부; 民族統一總本部). At this point, he was strongly anti-communist and opposed foreign intervention; he opposed the Soviet Union and the United States' proposal in the 1945 Moscow Conference to establish a trusteeship for Korea and the cooperation between the left-wing (communist) and the right-wing (nationalist) parties. He also refused to join the US-Soviet Joint Commission (미소공동위원회; 美蘇共同委員會) as well as the negotiations with the north.[11]
For decades, the Korean independence movement was torn by factionalism and in-fighting, and most of the leaders of the independence movement hated each other as much as they hated the Japanese. Rhee, who had lived for decades in the United States, was a figure known only from afar in Korea, and therefore regarded as a more or less acceptable compromise candidate for the conservative factions. More importantly, Rhee spoke fluent English, whereas none of his rivals did, and therefore he was the Korean politician most trusted and favored by the American occupation government. The British diplomat Roger Makins later recalled, "the American propensity to go for a man rather than a movement — Giraud among the French in 1942, Chiang Kai-shek in China. Americans have always liked the idea of dealing with a foreign leader who can be identified as 'their man'. They are much less comfortable with movements." Makins further added the same was the case with Rhee, as very few Americans were fluent in Korean in the 1940s or knew much about Korea, and it was simply far easier for the American occupation government to deal with Rhee than to try to understand Korea. Rhee was "acerbic, prickly, uncompromising" and was regarded by the US State Department, which long had dealings with him as "a dangerous mischief-maker", but the American General John R. Hodge decided that Rhee was the best man for the Americans to back because of his fluent English and his ability to talk with authority to American officers about American subjects. Once it became clear from October 1945 onward that Rhee was the Korean politician most favored by the Americans, other conservative leaders fell in behind him.[citation needed]
When the first US–Soviet Cooperation Committee meeting was concluded without a result, he began to argue in June 1946 that the government of Korea must be established as an independent entity.[11] In the same month, he created a plan based on this idea[6] and moved to Washington, DC, from December 1946 to April 1947 to lobby support for the plan. During the visit, Harry S. Truman's policies of Containment and the Truman Doctrine, which was announced in March 1947, enforced Rhee's anti-communist ideas.[11]
In November 1947, the
On 20 July 1948, Rhee was elected president of the Republic of Korea
Cabinet
Political repression
Soon after taking office, Rhee enacted laws that severely curtailed political dissent. There was much controversy between Rhee and his leftist opponents. Allegedly, many of the leftist opponents were arrested and in some cases killed. The most controversial issue has been Kim Ku's assassination. On 26 June 1949, Kim Ku was assassinated by
By early 1950, Rhee had about 30,000 alleged communists in his jails, and had about 300,000 suspected sympathizers enrolled in an official "re-education" movement called the
Korean War
Both Rhee and Kim Il Sung wanted to unite the Korean peninsula under their respective governments, but the United States refused to give South Korea any heavy weapons, to ensure that its military could only be used for preserving internal order and self-defense.[32] By contrast, Pyongyang was well equipped with Soviet aircraft, vehicles and tanks. According to John Merrill, "the war was preceded by a major insurgency in the South and serious clashes along the thirty-eighth parallel," and 100,000 people died in "political disturbances, guerrilla warfare, and border clashes".[33]
At the outbreak of war on 25 June 1950, North Korean troops launched a full-scale invasion of South Korea. All South Korean resistance at the 38th parallel was overwhelmed by the North Korean offensive within a few hours. By 26 June, it was apparent that the Korean People's Army (KPA) would occupy Seoul. Rhee stated, "Every Cabinet member, including myself, will protect the government."[34] At midnight on 28 June, the South Korean military destroyed the Han Bridge, preventing thousands of citizens from fleeing. On 28 June, North Korean soldiers occupied Seoul.
During the North Korean occupation of Seoul, Rhee established a temporary government in Busan and created a defensive perimeter along the Naktong Bulge. A series of battles ensued, which would later be known collectively as the Battle of Naktong Bulge. After the Battle of Inchon in September 1950, the North Korean military was routed, and the United Nations (UN)—of whom the largest contingents were the Americans and South Koreans—not only liberated all of South Korea, but overran much of North Korea. In the areas of North Korea taken by the UN forces, elections were supposed to be administered by the United Nations but instead were taken over and administered by the South Koreans. Rhee insisted on Bukjin Tongil – ending war by conquering North Korea, but after the Chinese entered the war in November 1950, the UN forces were thrown into retreat.[4] During this period of crisis, Rhee ordered the December massacres of 1950. Rhee was absolutely committed to reunifying Korea under his leadership and strongly supported MacArthur's call for going all-out against China, even at the risk of provoking a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.[35]
Hastings notes that, during the war, Rhee's official salary was equal to
In the spring of 1951, Rhee—who was upset about MacArthur's dismissal by President Truman—lashed out in a press interview against Britain, whom he blamed for MacArthur's sacking.[37] Rhee was absolutely committed to reunifying Korea under his leadership and strongly supported MacArthur's call for going all-out against China, even at the risk of provoking a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Rhee declared, "The British troops have outlived their welcome in my country." Shortly after, Rhee told an Australian diplomat about the Australian troops fighting for his country, "They are not wanted here any longer. Tell that to your government. The Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and British troops all represent a government which is now sabotaging the brave American effort to liberate fully and unify my unhappy nation."[37]
Rhee was strongly against the armistice negotiations the US entered into in 1953. Accordingly, in April of the same year, he demanded of President
On 27 July 1953, at last, "one of the 20th century's most vicious and frustrating wars"[39] came to an end with no apparent victor. Ultimately, the armistice agreement was signed by military commanders from China, North Korea and the United Nations Command, led by the US.[40] Its signatories did not include the ROK, as Rhee refused to agree to the armistice, and neither was it supposed to be a permanent cease-fire, as a peace treaty was never signed.
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Rhee awarding a medal toRear Admiral Ralph A. Ofstie during the Korean Warin 1952
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Rhee and his wife posing with Army Corps of Engineers personnel in 1950 at the Han River Bridge
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Rhee on Time magazine cover, 1953
Re-election
Because of widespread discontent with Rhee's corruption and political repression, it was considered unlikely that Rhee would be re-elected by the National Assembly. To circumvent this, Rhee attempted to amend the constitution to allow him to hold elections for the presidency by direct popular vote. When the Assembly rejected this amendment, Rhee ordered a mass arrest of opposition politicians and then passed the desired amendment in July 1952. During the following presidential election, he received 74% of the vote.[41]
Resignation and exile
After the war ended in July 1953, South Korea struggled to rebuild following nationwide devastation. The country remained at a Third World level of development and was heavily reliant on US aid.[42] Rhee was easily re-elected for what should have been the final time in 1956, since the 1948 constitution limited the president to two consecutive terms. However, soon after being sworn in, he had the legislature amend the constitution to allow the incumbent president to run for an unlimited number of terms, despite protests from the opposition.[43]
Rhee wanted his protégé, Lee Ki-poong, elected as Vice President—a separate office under Korean law at that time. When Lee, who was running against Chang Myon (the ambassador to the United States during the Korean War, a member from the opposition Democratic Party) won the vote with a wide margin, the opposition Democratic Party claimed the election was rigged. This triggered anger among segments of the Korean populace on 19 April. When police shot demonstrators in Masan, the student-led April Revolution forced Rhee to resign on 26 April.[44]
On 28 April, a
Death
Rhee died of stroke complications in Honolulu on 19 July 1965.[48] A week later, his body was returned to Seoul and buried in the Seoul National Cemetery.[49]
Personal life
Rhee was married to Seungseon Park from 1890 to 1910. Park divorced Rhee shortly after the death of their son Rhee Bong-su in 1908, supposedly because their marriage had no intimacy due to his political activities.[citation needed]
In February 1933, Rhee met Austrian Franziska Donner in Geneva.[50] At the time, Rhee was participating in a League of Nations meeting[50] and Donner was working as an interpreter.[17] In October 1934, they were married[50] in New York City.[17][51] She also acted as his secretary.[50]
Over the years after the death of Bong-su, Rhee adopted three sons. The first was Rhee Un-soo, however, the elder Rhee ended the adoption in 1949.
Legacy
Rhee's former Seoul residence, Ihwajang, is currently used for the presidential memorial museum. The Woo-Nam Presidential Preservation Foundation has been set up to honor his legacy. There is also a memorial museum located in Hwajinpo near Kim Il Sung's cottage.
Rhee imbued South Korea with a legacy of authoritarian rule that lasted with only a few short breaks until 1988. One of those breaks came when the country adopted a parliamentary system with a figurehead president in response to Rhee's abuses. This
Rhee began to be reevaluated after democratization in 1987, and in particular came to be associated with the so-called New Right movement, some members of which have argued that Rhee's achievements have been wrongly undervalued, and that he should be viewed positively as the founding father of the Republic of Korea.[59] An early and prominent example of such literature was Volume 2 of Re-Understanding the History of Pre- and Post-Liberation (해방 전후사의 재인식), published in 2006 by various "New Right" scholars. This academic dispute formed one of the germs behind the later history textbook controversies in the country.
In any event, this view has not spread much beyond the right-wing, with a 2023 Gallup Korea survey finding that only 30% of respondents saying that Rhee "did many good things", versus 40% who thought that he "did many wrong things" and 30% who had no opinion or didn't respond. Moreover, only about half of conservative party supporters, as well as half of self-described conservatives, gave the first response.[60]
In popular culture
- Portrayed by Lee Chang-hwan in the 1991–1992 MBC TV series Eyes of Dawn.
- Portrayed by Kwon Sung-deok in the 2006 KBS1 TV series Seoul 1945.
- In the M*A*S*H episode titled "Mail Call, Again", Radar mentions a parade in Seoul due to Syngman Rhee being "elected dictator again."[61]
- Rhee is referenced in the lyrics to singer Billy Joel's 1989 music single, "We Didn't Start the Fire".[62]
- Rhee is mentioned in Philip Roth's I Married a Communist.
- Rhee's new documentary film, The Birth of Korea (건국전쟁) was released in 2024, to re-establish his legacy and works.
- Season 3 of the Podcast Blowback released in 2022 includes extensive details about Rhee's rule, particularly his role within U.S. Cold War foreign policy.
Works
- The Spirit of Independence (독립정신; 獨立精神; 1904)
- Neutrality as Influenced by the United States (1912)
- Japan Inside and Out (1941)
See also
- President of South Korea
- Francesca Donner
- Inha University
- Korean independence movement
- Korean National Association
- Cabinet of Rhee Syng-man
Notes
- ^ As Chairman of the Interim Legislative Assembly
- ^ See North–South differences in the Korean language § Consonants.
- Korean Peninsulawas officially annexed by the Empire of Japan.
- ^ He did participate in the meeting as the Korean representative.
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Further reading
- Appleman, Roy E. (1998). South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu: United States Army in the Korean War. Washington, D.C.: ISBN 978-0-16-001918-0. Archived from the originalon 7 February 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
- Fields, David. Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea. University Press of Kentucky, 2019, 264 pages, ISBN 978-0813177199.
- Lew, Yong Ick. The Making of the First Korean President: Syngman Rhee's Quest for Independence (University of Hawai'i Press; 2013). Scholarly biography; 576 pages.
- Shin, Jong Dae, Christian F. Ostermann, and James F. Person (2013). North Korean Perspectives on the Overthrow of Syngman Rhee. Washington, D.C.: North Korea International Documentation Project.
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External links
- Syngman Rhee's FBI files hosted at the Internet Archive