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Koreans Who Mattered: Syngman Rhee

» by GI Korea March 21st, 2008 at 11:05 am » Comments (8)

Syngman Rhee is most famously known in Korea as being the first President of the fledgling Republic of Korea and lead his nation through the disastrous Korean War.  Despite being the first president of the ROK Syngman Rhee actually led a life with many other notable achievements as well as plenty of controversy. 
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Koreans Who Mattered: Dr. Sammy Lee

» by GI Korea February 20th, 2008 at 4:29 pm » Comments (8)

Long before Michelle Wie came along and became the most famous Korean-American athlete of today, (even though she hasn’t won anything of note) quite possibly the most famous Korean-American athlete ever was Dr. Sammy Lee:

Sammy Lee was born in Fresno, California in 1920 and during his childhood he always wanted to take up diving.  However, […]

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