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Takeshima sovereignty issue exhibition in Shimane

MATSUE, Japan - A visitor is pictured on Jan. 18, 2012, at a six-week exhibition entitled ''The Syngman Rhee Line and Takeshima'' in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. The prefectural government started the special exhibition the same day to call attention to the sovereignty issue surrounding a group of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan which is claimed by Japan as part of the western prefecture. The exhibition is to run through Feb. 29.

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2 Koreas resume high-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong Young (R) shakes hands with Vice Unification Minister Rhee Bong Jo before Rhee's departure for talks with North Korea. Rhee was leading a South Korean team to the talks in the North's border town of Kaesong.

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2 Koreas to resume ministerial talks Aug. 12-14

MT. KUMGANG, North Korea - Choe Song Ik (L), chief of Secretariat Sections of North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Fatherland, and Rhee Bong Jo (L), South Korea's assistant unification minister for policy, shake hands at Mt. Kumgang after issuing a five-point press statement. They have agreed to resume a seventh round of ministerial talks on Aug. 12-14 in Seoul. (Pool photo)

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2 Koreas hold working-level talks

MT. KUMGANG, North Korea - Rhee Bong Jo (L), South Korea's assistant unification minister for policy, and Choi Sung Ik from North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, shake hands at the outset of working-level talks on Mt. Kumgang in eastern North Korea on Aug. 3. (Pool photo)

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Rhee quits presidential nomination race

SEOUL, South Korea - Rhee In Je (R), one of three Millenium Democratic Party candidates running in South Korea's presidential nomination race, said in Seoul on April 17 that he would drop out of the race.

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Oriental museum in Osaka to open new building

Prince Mikasa, an uncle of Emperor Akihito, addresses guests attending a ceremony to celebrate the opening of a new building of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka on March 16. To commemorate the opening, the museum is holding a month-long exhibition of its new collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, donated by Rhee Byung Chang, a former Korean diplomat who currently resides in Tokyo.

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S. Korea raises policy rate by 25 bps to curb inflation

STORY: S. Korea raises policy rate by 25 bps to curb inflation DATELINE: Aug. 25, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:33 LOCATION: Seoul CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. Bank of Korea (files) 2. Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Rhee Chang-yong (Yonhap TV) 3. a rate-setting meeting (Yonhap TV) 4. file footage of citizens shopping in mart (Yonhap TV) 5. file footage of U.S. dollar (Yonhap TV) STORYLINE: South Korea's central bank on Thursday raised its policy rate to curb inflation, delivering four back-to-back rate hikes for the first time. Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Rhee Chang-yong and other monetary policymakers unanimously decided to lift the benchmark seven-day repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 2.50 percent. It marked the fourth consecutive rate increase for the first time, after hiking the rate by 50 basis points in July. The BOK set off its tightening monetary policy since August last year. The Thursday hike was in line with market expectations. According to a Korea Financial Investment Association poll of

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Rhee quits presidential nomination race

SEOUL, South Korea - Rhee In Je (R), one of three Millenium Democratic Party candidates running in South Korea's presidential nomination race, said in Seoul on April 17 that he would drop out of the race.

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Japan, S. Korea play in WBSC Premier 12 semifinal

South Korea starting pitcher Rhee Dae Eun (R) is taken out of the game in the fourth inning of a semifinal against Japan at the WBSC Premier 12 baseball tournament at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea play in WBSC Premier 12 semifinal

South Korea's starter Rhee Dae Eun pitches against Japan in a semifinal game at the WBSC Premier 12 baseball tournament at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 Koreas resume high-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong Young (R) shakes hands with Vice Unification Minister Rhee Bong Jo before Rhee's departure for talks with North Korea. Rhee was leading a South Korean team to the talks in the North's border town of Kaesong. (Kyodo)

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ADB chief economist Rhee in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Rhee Chang Yong, chief economist at the Asian Development Bank, poses during an interview in Tokyo on April 18, 2011. Rhee said the Japanese economy could grow slower than earlier projections in the wake of the nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Takeshima sovereignty issue exhibition in Shimane

MATSUE, Japan - A visitor is pictured on Jan. 18, 2012, at a six-week exhibition entitled ''The Syngman Rhee Line and Takeshima'' in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. The prefectural government started the special exhibition the same day to call attention to the sovereignty issue surrounding a group of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan which is claimed by Japan as part of the western prefecture. The exhibition is to run through Feb. 29. (Kyodo)

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Exhibition on South Korea's April Revolution

Photo taken July 31, 2020, shows the venue of an exhibition at Yonsei University Museum in Seoul, displaying archives of South Korea's April 19 Revolution, anti-government mass protests in 1960 that led then-President Syngman Rhee to step down. The exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the movement will open to the general public on Aug. 6.

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(CAPTION CORRECTED)2 Koreas hold working-level talks

MT. KUMGANG, North Korea - Rhee Bong Jo (L), South Korea's assistant unification minister for policy, and Choi Sung Ik from North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, shake hands at the outset of working-level talks on Mt. Kumgang in eastern North Korea on Aug. 3. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Oriental museum in Osaka to open new building

Prince Mikasa, an uncle of Emperor Akihito, addresses guests attending a ceremony to celebrate the opening of a new building of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka on March 16. To commemorate the opening, the museum is holding a month-long exhibition of its new collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, donated by Rhee Byung Chang, a former Korean diplomat who currently resides in Tokyo. ==Kyodo