Syngman Rhee, also known by his art name Unam, was a Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 until his resignation in 1960. His administration was characterised by
Official portrait, 1948
Rhee's Library of Congress print, 1939
Rhee in 1905 dressed to meet Theodore Roosevelt
The division of Korea or the partition of Korea began at the end of World War II on 2 September 1945, with the establishment of a Soviet occupation zone in the north and a US occupation zone in the so
Lyuh Woon-hyung giving a speech in the Committee for Preparation of Korean Independence in Seoul on 16 August 1945
Welcome celebration for the Red Army in Pyongyang on 14 October 1945
Anti-trusteeship Movement [ko] protests in the South (December 1945)
South Korean demonstration in support of the U.S.-Soviet Joint Commission [ko] in 1946