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• Lausanne Movement

  [Institutions]

  The Lausanne Movement is an evangelical world mission movement that began at the International Congress on World Evangelization (the First Lausanne Congress), held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. The Lausanne Covenant, adopted at that congress, is the movement's foundational document.

• Shincheonji

  [Heresies & 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.

• World Mission Society Church of God

  [Heresies & 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.

• World Evangelization Mission Association

  [Heresies & 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.

• Joint Easter Service

  [Worship & Rites]

  A joint Easter service is a worship service held on Easter at which multiple denominations and churches gather together, often at dawn. In Korea, the first such service is reported to have been held in 1947 on Namsan in Seoul.

• Liberation Day Commemoration Sunday

  [Feasts & Seasons]

  Liberation Day Commemoration Sunday is an observance of Korean churches, held on the Sunday near August 15, Korea's National Liberation Day, to remember the nation's 1945 liberation from Japanese colonial rule and to give thanks and pray for the nation and its people.

• History of Korean Church Missions

  [History]

  The history of Korean church missions is the history of Korean Protestantism sending missionaries to other regions and abroad. Its starting points are generally identified as the 1907 sending of a missionary to Jeju Island by the Independent Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Korea and the 1913 mission to Shandong, China.

• Hanshin University

  [Institutions]

  Hanshin University is a private comprehensive university in South Korea that traces its origins to the Chosun Theological Seminary, which opened in 1940 at Seungdong Church in Seoul. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK) and has campuses in Osan, Gyeonggi Province, and in Suyu-dong, Seoul.

• Korea Baptist Theological University

  [Institutions]

  Korea Baptist Theological University is a private theological university in Yuseong District, Daejeon, South Korea. It opened in 1953 and serves as the denominational seminary of the Korea Baptist Convention. In Korean it is commonly called by the abbreviation Chimsindae.

• Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary

  [Institutions]

  Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary (PUTS), commonly abbreviated in Korean as Jangsindae, is the theological university of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). It is located in Gwangjin District, Seoul. The school is regarded as having originated in a theology class begun in Pyongyang in 1901 by the missionary Samuel A. Moffett.

• Korea Food for the Hungry International

  [Institutions]

  Korea Food for the Hungry International, publicly known as Hope Friends KFHI, is an international relief and development nongovernmental organization (NGO) founded in 1989 on Christian principles. Under the motto "Bread and the Gospel," it carries out overseas relief, domestic welfare programs, and the sending of professional missionaries.

• Kosin University

  [Institutions]

  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.

• Korea World Missions Association

  [Institutions]

  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.

• Chongshin University

  [Institutions]

  Chongshin University is a private theological university founded by the Presbyterian Church in Korea (HapDong). It traces its roots to the Chosun Presbyterian Theological Seminary, which opened in Pyongyang in 1901.

• Far East Broadcasting Company (Korea)

  [Institutions]

  The Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) is an interdenominational Protestant missionary radio broadcaster in South Korea that went on the air in Incheon in 1956. It is known for domestic gospel broadcasting and for its "northern mission" broadcasts aimed at communist countries such as North Korea, China, and Russia.

• Christian Broadcasting System (South Korea)

  [Institutions]

  CBS (Christian Broadcasting System) is a Protestant broadcaster and Korea's first privately owned broadcasting station. It began radio broadcasting on December 15, 1954. A board of trustees nominated by several denominations governs it, and it airs both missionary programming and general news and current affairs programming.

• Compassion Korea

  [Institutions]

  Compassion Korea is the Korean branch of Compassion International, an international child development organization. Compassion first worked in Korea to help orphans of the Korean War, and its assistance there ended in 1993. Compassion Korea was established in 2003, when Korea became a sponsor country. It connects children in poor countries one-to-one with Korean sponsors.

• Hansei University

  [Institutions]

  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.

• Seoul Theological University

  [Institutions]

  Seoul Theological University is a private theological university in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, affiliated with the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church. It traces its origins to a Bible institute founded in Seoul in 1911 by the Oriental Missionary Society.

• Date-Setting Eschatology

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Date-setting eschatology is the practice of predicting a specific date or year for Christ's Second Coming or the end of the world. In South Korea it became widely known through the claim that the Rapture would occur on October 28, 1992.