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Korea Campus Crusade for Christ
[Institutions]Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC) is an interdenominational campus mission organization founded in 1958 by the Rev. Kim Joon-gon. It is known as the first overseas branch of Campus Crusade for Christ, which began in the United States.
Son Yang-won
[People]Son Yang-won (1902–1950) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. He was imprisoned for refusing the Japanese colonial authorities' compulsory Shinto shrine worship, and he ministered to people with Hansen's disease at Aeyangwon in Yeosu. He adopted the man who had killed his two sons and was executed during the Korean War.
Yun Dong-ju
[People]Yun Dong-ju (1917–1945) was a poet active during the Japanese colonial period in Korea. He left behind the posthumous poetry collection *Sky, Wind, Stars, and Poetry*. Raised in a Presbyterian family in Myeongdong Village in North Jiandao, he died in a Japanese prison after being charged with anti-Japanese activities.
Park Hyung-ryong
[People]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.
Kang Won-yong
[People]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.