In South Korea, March 1 marks Inde­pen­dence Move­ment Day, a com­mem­o­ra­tion of the 1919 Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence that marked the start of Korean resis­tance against the country’s Japan­ese occu­pa­tion. One of the notable fig­ures of that move­ment was Syn­g­man Rhee *1910, who was named the Pres­i­dent of the exile Pro­vi­sional Gov­ern­ment of the Repub­lic of Korea that arose dur­ing this strug­gle. Rhee served this exile gov­ern­ment, based in Shang­hai, China, until his ouster in 1925, and later served as the first pres­i­dent of the Repub­lic of Korea from 1948 until another acri­mo­nious depar­ture in 1960.