On December 6th, the Syngman Rhee Institute of Yonsei University signed an MOU with Woodrow Wilson Center. Yonsei University President Jeong Kap-young and Woodrow Wilson Center Executive Vice President and COO Michael Van Dusen met at Woodrow’s Washington Wilson Center to exchange the MOU. According to the MOU, the Woodrow Wilson Center will analyze former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s influence on Korea’s independence movement and digitalize documents that record Rhee Syngman’s founding of the Republic of Korea. Rhee Syngman was one of the leading figures in Korea’s independence movement whose base was in the U.S. The aim of the project is to disseminate the documents once digitalized. The Syngman Rhee Institute will provide copies of the original documents to Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Center will utilize its History and Public Policy Programs to offer the digitalized resources to researchers on its newly launched digital archive from January 2013. After signing the MOU, the two schools held a joint conference where Erez Manela, professor of history at Harvard University, presented his dissertation on Woodrow Wilson’s impact on Korea and the personal connections between the former US president and Rhee Syngman. Ryu Seok-choon, Director of the Syngman Rhee Institute, presented his studies on the documents from Rhee’s term of office, and James Person, Senior Program Associate for the History and Public Policy Program, explained how these sources would be accessible to researchers.