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• Kang Won-yongPeople

  Kang Won-yong (1917–2006) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea. He co-founded Kyungdong Church and founded the Christian Academy, through which he led the dialogue movement and interreligious dialogue. His pen name was Yeohae.

• Voice of the Martyrs KoreaInstitutions

  Voice of the Martyrs Korea is an interdenominational mission organization that assists Christians persecuted for their faith, especially members of North Korea's underground church, and makes their stories known to churches in South Korea. It shares the lineage of The Voice of the Martyrs, the international organization begun by the Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand.

• Sunday School MovementHistory

  The Sunday school movement was a church education movement that spread Sunday schools, which teach the Bible to children and adults on the Lord's Day. In Korea, the movement centered on the Korea Sunday School Association, organized in 1922.

• Kosin UniversityInstitutions

  Kosin University is a private Christian university operated by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Kosin). It traces its origins to Koryo Theological Seminary, founded in Busan in 1946. Its graduate school of theology, which trains ministers, is located in Cheonan under the name Korea Theological Seminary.

• Henry AppenzellerPeople

  Henry Appenzeller (1858–1902) was an American missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (North) who arrived in Korea, then the Joseon kingdom, in 1885. He founded Paichai Hakdang and Chungdong First Methodist Church and took part in Bible translation. He died in 1902 in a shipwreck off Eocheongdo Island.

• PersecutionHistory

  Persecution refers to the oppression, punishment, and violence inflicted on Christians and the church by states or social groups because of their faith. It has been a significant experience throughout church history, from the early church to the church in Korea.

• Paul Chong HasangPeople

  Paul Chong Hasang (丁夏祥, 1795–1839) was a Catholic lay leader in late Joseon Korea. After the Sinyu Persecution, he worked to rebuild the shattered church and to bring clergy into the country. During the Gihae Persecution, he left behind the *Sang Jaesang Seo* (Letter to the Prime Minister) and was martyred. His baptismal name was Paul.

• Horace UnderwoodPeople

  Horace Grant Underwood (1859–1916) was an American Northern Presbyterian missionary who arrived in Korea, then the Joseon kingdom, in 1885. He founded Saemunan Church and led the establishment of Kyungshin School and Chosen Christian College (Yonhi College). In Korea he was known as Won Du-u (元杜尤).

• Hansei UniversityInstitutions

  Hansei University is a private Christian comprehensive university in Gunpo, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It began in 1953 as Full Gospel Theological Seminary, a Pentecostal theological school, and has close ties to the Korea Assemblies of God and Yoido Full Gospel Church.

• Westminster Confession of FaithDoctrine & Theology

  The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith produced by the Westminster Assembly in seventeenth-century England. Together with the Larger and Shorter Catechisms prepared by the same assembly, it serves as the doctrinal standard for most Presbyterian churches worldwide, including most Presbyterian denominations in Korea.

• William LintonPeople

  William Alderman Linton (1891–1960) was an American Southern Presbyterian educational missionary to Korea. Known in Korea as In Don (印敦), he devoted forty-eight years to school education in the Honam and Chungcheong regions and founded Daejeon Christian College, the predecessor of Hannam University.

• Louis BerkhofPeople

  Louis Berkhof (1873–1957) was a Dutch-born American Reformed theologian. He served as professor and president of Calvin Theological Seminary, and his major work, *Systematic Theology*, has also been widely read in Presbyterian theological education in Korea.

• Homosexuality and the ChurchControversies

  Homosexuality and the church concerns how churches should respond to homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ church members and clergy. In South Korea, most denominations hold the traditional position that homosexuality is sin, and the issue is closely intertwined with the debate over enacting an anti-discrimination law.

• The NavigatorsInstitutions

  The Navigators is an interdenominational mission organization founded by Dawson Trotman in the United States in 1933. It is known for discipleship training centered on one-to-one mentoring and Scripture memorization. Its ministry in Korea officially began in 1966.

• Bang Ji-ilPeople

  Bang Ji-il (1911–2014) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). Beginning in 1937, he served for twenty-one years as a missionary in Shandong Province, China. After returning to Korea, he became senior pastor of Yeongdeungpo Church in Seoul and moderator of his denomination's General Assembly. Because he remained active past the age of one hundred, he was known as "the eternal active-duty minister."

• Cell ChurchHistory

  The cell church is a model of ministry that understands the church as a network of small groups, or cells, that grow and multiply on their own. The term also refers to a movement that spread in South Korea from the late 1990s. This article also covers G12, one branch of the cell church movement.

• Minjung ChurchOrganization & Polity

  A minjung church is a church that regards workers, the urban poor, and other socially marginalized people as the "minjung" (the people) and makes standing with them, in the places where they live, the center of its mission. Minjung churches took shape in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s alongside minjung theology.

• Luther UniversityInstitutions

  Luther University is a private four-year university in South Korea founded by the Lutheran Church in Korea. Located in Giheung District, Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, it opened in 1966 as Luther Theological Institute. Alongside theological education, it specializes in caregiving ("human care") fields such as social welfare and counseling.

• Byeongin PersecutionHistory

  The Byeongin Persecution was the mass arrest and execution of Catholics and French missionaries by the Joseon court that began in 1866, while the Heungseon Daewongun held power. It is regarded as the largest persecution in the history of the Catholic Church in Korea.

• Nevius Mission PolicyHistory

  The Nevius Mission Policy was a mission policy adopted by the Presbyterian missions in Korea in the early 1890s, based on methods proposed by John Nevius, a missionary to China. At its core are the three-self principles, under which the local church propagates itself (self-propagation), governs itself (self-government), and supports itself financially (self-support), together with systematic Bible study.