Kin of S. Korea's 1st president apologizes to pro-democracy fighters

Kin of S. Korea's 1st president apologizes to pro-democracy fighters

Lee In-soo (in wheelchair), the adopted son of South Korea's first president, Rhee Syng-man, reads a statement to offer an apology to pro-democracy fighters as he visits a monument bearing the portraits and names of those who were killed in a pro-democracy revolution, at the April 19th National Cemetery in Seoul on Sept. 1, 2023. The April 19, 1960, students' movement against the autocratic rule of Rhee followed the discovery of massive rigging of the presidential election. The uprising forced Rhee to eventually resign. (Yonhap)

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