His early life

Lee Seungman was born on April 18, 1875; his birthday is also stated as March 26, the lunar date, and April 26. Rhee was born in the Hwanghae province, and when he was age of 2 his family moved to seoul. In Seoul, he had traditional Confucianism education in seodang(Korean traditional school), he took a gwageo(the Korean civil service examination) but he failed. When he was 17 years old he started to attend Baejae school an American Methodist school, in the Baejae school he studied English and shinhakmoon(literally new subject. He converted to Christianity in school. In 1895, he graduated from Baejae School.                                                                                  

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