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Korea World Missions Association
The Korea World Missions Association (KWMA) is a Korean Protestant cooperative body for overseas missions that brings together the mission boards of various denominations and mission organizations. Established in 1990 as an incorporated association, it publishes annual statistics on Korean missionaries and has led the "Target 2030" movement.
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- World Evangelization Mission AssociationHeresies & Cults
The World Evangelization Mission Association is an evangelistic movement led by Ryu Kwang-su and is also known as the "Darakbang (Upper Room) Evangelism Movement." Beginning in the mid-1990s, a number of Korean Protestant denominations designated it as heretical or pseudo-Christian. Controversy arose in 2013 when the Christian Council of Korea lifted its heresy designation.
- Christian Gospel MissionHeresies & Cults
The Christian Gospel Mission is a religious organization founded by Jung Myung-seok and widely known as JMS. Several Protestant denominations in South Korea have declared it heretical, and its founder has twice received final prison sentences for sex crimes against female members.
- Paidion MissionInstitutions
Paidion Mission is a South Korean mission organization for children and the next generation, founded in 1975 by students at Chongshin University. Its principal work includes developing church school curricula, training teachers, and producing Vacation Bible School materials and children's worship albums.
- Men's Mission SocietyOrganization & Polity
The Men's Mission Society is an organization within local congregations of Korean Protestant churches through which adult male members pursue fellowship, service, and mission support. Depending on the denomination and congregation, it is also called the Men's Evangelistic Society.
- Industrial MissionHistory
Industrial Mission was the missionary work that Korean Protestant churches carried out among factory workers beginning in the late 1950s. It began as evangelism in factories, but in the 1970s it became a movement advocating for workers' rights.
- Open DoorsInstitutions
Open Doors is an interdenominational international mission organization begun in 1955 by Brother Andrew of the Netherlands. It supports churches and believers in regions where Christians face persecution and publishes an annual ranking of Christian persecution, the World Watch List.
- CGNTVInstitutions
CGN (Christian Global Network) is a Protestant mission broadcaster operated by the Onnuri Mission Foundation, an incorporated foundation established chiefly by Onnuri Church in Seoul, South Korea. It began broadcasting in 2005 as CGNTV. Its primary audiences are overseas missionaries and members of the Korean diaspora around the world.
- Paichai HaktangHistory
Paichai Haktang was a private secondary school founded in 1885 in Jeong-dong, Seoul, by Henry Appenzeller, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. It is regarded as Korea's first modern private school, and its successors are today's Paichai Middle School and Paichai High School.
- World Mission Society Church of GodHeresies & Cults
The World Mission Society Church of God is a religious group that split from an organization founded by Ahn Sahng-hong in Busan in 1964. Its members believe Ahn Sahng-hong to be Christ at His Second Coming and Zahng Gil-jah to be "God the Mother." Major Korean Protestant denominations and ecumenical bodies have designated the group as heretical.
- Word of Life Press (Korea)Institutions
Word of Life Press is a Christian publishing house founded in Korea in 1953 by the American mission agency TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission). It publishes Christian books, operates Christian bookstores, and carries out literature ministry.
- Scripture MemorizationChristian Life
Scripture memorization is the devotional practice of committing passages of the Bible to memory and taking them to heart. Its purpose goes beyond recall to using the memorized Word in meditation, prayer, and evangelism. In Korean Protestant churches it is widely practiced through memory verses in Sunday school, discipleship training, and the training programs of mission organizations.
- World VisionInstitutions
World Vision is an international Christian relief and development nongovernmental organization. It began in 1950, during the Korean War, when the American missionary Bob Pierce and Korean church leaders, including the Rev. Han Kyung-chik, began helping war orphans and widows.
- '80 World Evangelization CrusadeHistory
The '80 World Evangelization Crusade was a large interdenominational evangelistic gathering held August 12–15, 1980, at May 16 Plaza on Yeouido in Seoul, South Korea. It is known for its final day, when many young people resolved to commit themselves as long-term or short-term missionaries.
- WCC ControversyControversies
A controversy among Korean Protestant churches over whether to join and cooperate with the World Council of Churches (WCC). It was one of the causes of the 1959 division of the Presbyterian Church in Korea into the Tonghap and Hapdong branches, and it flared up again on a large scale when the WCC held its assembly in Busan in 2013.
- WCC Busan AssemblyHistory
The Tenth Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC), held from October 30 to November 8, 2013, at BEXCO in Busan, South Korea, under the theme "God of Life, Lead Us to Justice and Peace."
- Habitat for Humanity KoreaInstitutions
Habitat for Humanity Korea is the Korean affiliate of the international nonprofit Habitat for Humanity. It is an incorporated housing-welfare association that works with volunteers to build and repair homes for people in inadequate housing.
- YWCA of KoreaInstitutions
The YWCA of Korea (Young Women's Christian Association of Korea) is a Protestant women's and youth movement founded in 1922 by Kim Hwal-lan, Kim Pil-rye, Yu Gak-gyeong, and others. It consists of member YWCAs throughout the country and the national federation that unites them.
- Unification ChurchHeresies & Cults
The Unification Church is a religious organization founded by Sun Myung Moon in 1954 under the name Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. It is now called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Korean Protestant denominations, including the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap), have formally declared it a heresy and a pseudo-religion.
- 1973 Billy Graham Crusade in KoreaHistory
A large-scale united evangelistic campaign held at Yeouido Plaza in Seoul from May 30 to June 3, 1973, at which the American evangelist Billy Graham preached. More than 1.1 million people are reported to have gathered on the final day.