Editing Syngman Rhee (section)

== Personal life ==
Rhee was married to Seungseon Park from 1890 to 1910. Park divorced Rhee shortly after the death of their son Rhee Bong-su in 1908, supposedly because their marriage had no intimacy due to his political activities.{{citation needed|date = September 2021}}

In February 1933, Rhee met Austrian [[Franziska Donner]] in Geneva.<ref name="EncyKorea D">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Contents/Index?contents_id=E0060456 |script-title=ko:프란체스카 |publisher=[[Academy of Korean Studies]] |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Korean Culture]] |access-date=7 April 2014 |language=ko |trans-title=Francesca}}</ref> At the time, Rhee was participating in a League of Nations meeting<ref name="EncyKorea D" /> and Donner was working as an interpreter.<ref name="KoreaTimes 13" /> In October 1934, they were married<ref name="EncyKorea D" /> in New York City.<ref name="KoreaTimes 13" /><ref name="Walnut">{{cite magazine | title = KOREA: The Walnut | magazine = TIME | date = 9 March 1953 | access-date = 20 March 2010 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,890478-3,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111118063322/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,890478-3,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 18 November 2011 | quote = In 1932, while attempting to put Korea's case before an indifferent League of Nations in Geneva, Rhee met Francesca Maria Barbara Donner, 34, the daughter of a family of Viennese iron merchants. Two years later they were married in a Methodist ceremony in New York.}}</ref> She also acted as his secretary.<ref name="EncyKorea D" />

Over the years after the death of Bong-su, Rhee adopted three sons. The first was Rhee Un-soo, however, the elder Rhee ended the adoption in 1949.<ref>{{cite book |author1=정병준 |script-title=ko:우남이승만연구 |date=2005 |publisher=역사비평사 |pages=56, 64}}</ref> The second adopted son was Lee Kang-seok, eldest son of Lee Ki-poong, who was a descendant of [[Prince Hyoryeong]]<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ko:효령대군파 권37(孝寧大君派 卷之三十七) |url=http://visualjoseon.aks.ac.kr/viewer/view?itemId=jb&gubun=person&dataId=K21131B_037_188900 |website=장서각기록유산DB |access-date=5 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |script-title=ko:전주이씨효령대군정효공파세보 全州李氏孝寧大君靖孝公派世譜 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1568146 |website=FamilySearch |access-date=7 June 2020}}</ref> and therefore a distant cousin of Rhee; but Lee committed suicide in 1960.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Choy|first1=Bong-youn|title=Korea: A History|date=1971|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|isbn=9781462912483|page=352|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X0nRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT352|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Oh|first1=John Kie-chiang|title=Korean Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic Development|date=1999|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0801484588|page=[https://archive.org/details/koreanpoliticsqu00ohjo/page/43 43]|url=https://archive.org/details/koreanpoliticsqu00ohjo|url-access=registration|language=en}}</ref> After Rhee was exiled, Rhee In-soo, who is a descendant of [[Prince Yangnyeong]] just like Rhee, was adopted by him as his heir.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ko:전주이씨양녕대군파대보 全州李氏讓寧大君派大譜, 2권, 655–1980 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1918690 |website=FamilySearch |access-date=7 June 2020}}</ref>