In 1960, in South Korea, Syngman Rhee was elected president for a fourth consecutive term.

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In 1950, General Douglas MacArthur handed over Seoul to President Syngman Rhee of South Korea.

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Syngman Rhee, who became South Korea's first head of state in 1948, was forced out and died in exile in Hawaii.

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Thus, from Singapore's Lee with his Cambridge double first honors, to Princeton PhD Syngman Rhee of Korea, Asian leaders had to translate their nationalist creed into the language of the paddy and the street.

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