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Paichai Haktang
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.
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- 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.
- Henry Dodge AppenzellerPeople
Henry Dodge Appenzeller (1889–1953) was an American Methodist missionary born in Seoul. He served for about twenty years as the fifth principal of Pai Chai Haktang, the school founded by his father, Henry Appenzeller, and led relief work during the Korean War.
- Methodist Theological UniversityInstitutions
Methodist Theological University (known in Korean by the abbreviation Gamsindae) is a theological university of the Korean Methodist Church in Naengcheon-dong, Seodaemun District, Seoul. The school traces its origins to the theological instruction that Henry Appenzeller began at Pai Chai Hakdang in 1887.
- Kang Shin-myungPeople
Kang Shin-myung (1909–1985) was a minister and educator in the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). He served for many years as senior pastor of Saemoonan Church and held the offices of moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap) and president of Soongjun University (now Soongsil University).