New Resources and Different Views
Conflict with Rhee's Legacy of Democracy
Fall 2025 and 2026 - Current transfer of the Henry Chung archives to the National Memorial to the Korean Provisional Government will make the Syngman Rhee history more accurately presented. Lee DeYoung is currently developing the opportunity for many important documents critical to the true story to be studied.
Photo - United Nations Delegation 1945 - Henry Chung is
second in back row to the right of Rev. Yoon Byunggu
Books with a Different Perspective
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Former President of Korea's Independence Hall
"In Hawaii, Rhee prompted a divide in the Korean community when he expelled Park Yong-man, an independence activist, organizing a Korean assembly and establishing a military school for young Koreans."
Practiced Distortion:
The resurrection of Syngman Rhee’s legacy
Kim Sam-woong
Former President of the Independence Hall of Korea
Oct.9,2008 13:27
Some of the people who used to delight in resurrecting the legacy of former President Park Chung-hee are now waging an all-out war to save that of Syngman Rhee with the publication of a series of books glorifying him as the “father of the nation.” The same kind of people who would call call Rhee the “father of the nation” in the South are the same as those who would call Kim Il-sung the “great leader” in the North. The history of the Korean Peninsula is taking another step backward in time. Continue reading
