I think for Syngman Rhee the reason he is known that way in English is because he spent a significant amount of his life living in the US and interacting with A

I think for Syngman Rhee the reason he is known that way in English is because he spent a significant amount of his life living in the US and interacting with Americans; In America the convention followed by most people with Asian names is to use the English order in English. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman_Rhee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman_Rhee