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Park Yune-sun
Park Yune-sun (1905–1988), whose pen name was Jeongam (正岩), was a Presbyterian minister and theologian. He was the first Korean to complete and publish a commentary on the entire Old and New Testaments, and he taught Reformed theology at Koryo Theological Seminary, Chongshin, and Hapdong Theological Seminary.
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- Park Hyung-ryongPeople
Park Hyung-ryong (1897–1978) was a Korean Presbyterian theologian whose pen name was Juksan. Beginning as a professor at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pyongyang, he taught theology for nearly half a century and is regarded as the figure who laid the foundations of conservative Presbyterian theology in Korea.
- Park Sin-ilPeople
Park Sin-il was the wife of Sohn Jeong-do, a Methodist minister and Korean independence activist during the Japanese colonial period. She is known as a pastor's wife who supported her family through her own labor, sustaining her husband's theological studies and his independence work both in Korea and abroad.
- CheonbugyoHeresies & Cults
Cheonbugyo is a religious organization founded in 1955 by Park Tae-seon, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church in Korea. Formerly called the Korean Jesus Church Evangelical Hall Revival Association, it was widely known as Jeondogwan ("Evangelical Hall"). In 1956 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea declared it heretical.
- Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary CemeteryHistory
The Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery is a foreign cemetery on the hill above Yanghwa Ferry in Hapjeong-dong, Mapo District, Seoul, South Korea. It began in 1890 with the burial of the medical missionary John Heron. It holds the graves of missionaries who worked in Korea and their families, as well as diplomats, journalists, and others.
- Explo '74History
Explo '74 was a large-scale evangelism training rally held by Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) from August 13 to 18, 1974, at May 16 Plaza (now Yeouido Park) on Yeouido in Seoul. It is regarded as the high point of the National Evangelization Movement led by the Rev. Kim Joon-gon.
- Salvation Sect (Guwonpa)Heresies & Cults
The Salvation Sect (Guwonpa) is the collective name Korean Protestants use for the Kwon Shin-chan–Yoo Byung-eun line, which began in Daegu, South Korea, in the early 1960s, and for the Lee Yo-han and Park Ock-soo lines, which either split from it or share its roots. Korea's major Protestant denominations have declared it heretical.
- The Church and the Democratization MovementHistory
The church and the democratization movement refers to the activities of South Korean Protestants who, on the basis of their faith, called for the restoration of human rights and democracy under the military governments of the 1970s and 1980s. Pastors and young people from denominations affiliated with the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) were at its center.
- Susannah SpurgeonPeople
Susannah Spurgeon (1832–1903) was a Christian author and the wife of the English Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. In 1875 she founded the Book Fund, which sent theological books to ministers of limited means.
- ShincheonjiHeresies & Cults
Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (Shincheonji), is a new religious movement founded by Lee Man-hee in 1984 in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Major Korean Protestant denominations, including the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap), the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapdong), and the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church, have declared it heretical.
- Yi Sang-jaePeople
Yi Sang-jae (李商在, 1850–1927) was a reform-minded official of the Korean Empire and an independence activist. His pen name was Wollam (月南). He embraced the Christian faith while in prison, and after his release he led the YMCA, combining the Christian youth movement with the national movement.