This leader executed five officers for embezzling food money from the National Defense Corps, which had led to thousands of soldiers dying during a wartime march.  
This man's advisor, former Penn State professor Robert Oliver, wrote a biography of him subtitled "The Man Behind the Myth." He temporarily fled his country in 1912 by using the accurate excuse that he was serving as a representative at a Minneapolis-based Methodist conference. This leader executed five officers for embezzling food money from the National Defense Corps, which had led to thousands of soldiers dying during a wartime march.  This man met his second wife in 1933 while she was working as an interpreter for the (*) League of Nations. Protests against him began after a fisherman discovered the dead body of a high schooler with a tear gas capsule lodged in his eye near the port city of Masan. Thousands were killed during this leader's suppression of the Jeju Island uprising. A CIA-owned plane helped this man escape to Hawaii after the April Uprising in 1960. For 10 points, name this first president of South Korea.
This man's advisor, former Penn State professor Robert Oliver, wrote a biography of him subtitled "The Man Behind the Myth."
Syngman Rhee [or Rhee Syngman]