Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Kim Sung Soo, 64, onetime (1951-52) Vice President of South Korea, head of the anti-Syngman Rhee Democratic Nationalist Party; of palsy; in Seoul, Korea. Kim resigned as Vice President as a protest against Rhee's declaration of a state of martial law in 1952 and his penchant for jailing National Assembly critics of his government...
Embarrassed Korean army officers identified the would-be assassin as Major Kim Ki Ok, 34, a wounded veteran of the early Korean war days, and said that he was mentally upset and perhaps insane. But President Syngman Rhee's nimble propaganda office saw an opportunity to make a little hay. "Major Kim had served in the front during the fighting and was sent to the rear with wounds," the government explained. "It is believed that the shock which came with his disappointment at the armistice and failure to achieve the unification of Korea affected his mind. He confessed that...
Into a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Seoul stumped Korea's leathery old President Syngman Rhee for a quick look around. He peeked into the tile-roofed monk's residence attached to the temple, and was scandalized to find a woman asleep. It was his wife, explained the monk, and there were four children. "I thought," snapped Rhee, "that Buddhist monks are supposed to be unmarried. How long has this been going on?" The embarrassed man muttered the classic excuse: "All the monks are doing...
Autocratic old Syngman Rhee wants to be President of South Korea for the rest of his life, even though it is unconstitutional. His solution: change the constitution. Last year he proposed amending the constitution so that the two-term limit would not apply to "the first President of the Republic"-himself. To pass the amendment, he needed more than a two-thirds majority, or better than 135 votes out of the 203-man Assembly. But he had only 100 votes. His leaders set to work cultivating opposition Assemblymen with so many favors, Bank of Korea loans and automobiles, that...
...Syngman Rhee was a hard man to help...