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• Presbyterian Church of Chosen

  [History]

  The Presbyterian Church of Chosen was the first General Assembly organization of Korean Presbyterianism, formed in Pyongyang in September 1912 by seven presbyteries. It was renamed the Presbyterian Church in Korea in 1949, and many Presbyterian denominations today regard it as their common root.

• Indigenization Theology

  [History]

  Indigenization theology is a theological movement that seeks to interpret the gospel within the religious and cultural traditions of Korea. It was advanced in the 1960s by Yun Sung-bum, Yu Tong-shik, and others at Methodist Theological Seminary in Seoul, and the controversy surrounding it is known as the "indigenization debate."

• Severance Hospital

  [History]

  Severance Hospital traces its origins to Jejungwon, a hospital established in 1885 by the Joseon government and staffed by medical missionaries of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). In 1904 a new hospital, named after its donor, Louis Severance, opened outside Namdaemun (the South Gate) in Seoul.

• History of Korean Hymnals

  [History]

  Korean Protestant hymnody began with the Methodist hymnal Chanmiga in 1892. Through successive unions and divisions among the denominations, it developed into the Unified Hymnal of 1983 and the 21st Century Hymnal (also called the New Hymnal) of 2006. This article traces that development.

• Christmas Seals

  [History]

  Christmas seals are stamp-like labels issued and sold around Christmastime to raise funds for the fight against tuberculosis. The first was issued in Denmark in 1904. In Korea, they were first issued in 1932 by the medical missionary Sherwood Hall.

• Scripture Union Korea

  [Institutions]

  Scripture Union Korea is the Korean branch of Scripture Union (SU), an international mission organization founded in England in 1867. Established in 1972, it is not affiliated with any denomination and is known as the publisher of the quiet time devotional Daily Bible (Maeil Seonggyeong).

• Christian Population of South Korea

  [History]

  The Christian population of South Korea is the number of people in South Korea who identify as Protestant or Catholic. Statistics Korea's Population and Housing Census has asked about religion every ten years since 1985, and in the 2015 census Protestantism became the country's largest religion for the first time.

• Kidok Shinmun

  [Institutions]

  The Kidok Shinmun (Christian Newspaper) is the denominational newspaper published by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (HapDong). First published on January 4, 1965, it now appears under the title The Weekly Kidok Shinmun.

• Missionary Sending by the Korean Church

  [History]

  Missionary sending by the Korean church refers to the history of Korean Protestant churches and mission organizations sending missionaries to other regions and countries. Its beginning is commonly dated to the 1907 mission to Jeju Island. As of the end of 2024, there were 21,621 Korean long-term missionaries serving in 171 countries.

• University Bible Fellowship

  [Institutions]

  University Bible Fellowship (UBF) is an interdenominational campus mission organization founded in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1961 by Lee Chang-woo and Sarah Barry, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the Southern Presbyterian Church). It is known for one-to-one Bible study and overseas university missions.

• Disciple-making Ministries International

  [Institutions]

  Disciple-making Ministries International (DMI) is a discipleship training ministry affiliated with SaRang Community Church in South Korea. Founded in 1986 by Pastor Oak Han-hum, it has conducted the CAL Seminar, a discipleship leadership seminar for pastors.

• Child Evangelism Fellowship of Korea

  [Institutions]

  Child Evangelism Fellowship of Korea is the Korean national organization of the international Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF). An interdenominational mission organization devoted to ministry among children, it began its work in Korea in 1957 and is known for its Good News Clubs and teacher training seminars.

• Christian Literature Center (CLC Korea)

  [Institutions]

  The Christian Literature Center (CLC) is the Korean branch of CLC, an international literature mission organization founded in England in 1941. The Korean branch began operating in 1975 and is an incorporated association that publishes and distributes theological and devotional books.

• The Korea Christian Press

  [Institutions]

  The Korea Christian Press (Hanguk Gidok Gongbo) is a weekly newspaper published by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). Founded on January 17, 1946, it is regarded as the oldest weekly newspaper still in publication.

• Intelligent Design

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Intelligent design is the claim that certain features of living things and the universe are better explained by an "intelligent cause" than by undirected natural processes. It took shape as a movement in the United States in the 1990s.

• Territorial Spirits

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Territorial spirits are evil spiritual beings believed to rule over particular nations, cities, or regions. The term was widely used in the spiritual warfare movement of the 1980s and 1990s, and assessments of it vary sharply among denominations and theologians.

• Black Theology

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Black theology is a theological movement that begins from the experience of Black people who endured slavery and racism and understands God as the one who liberates the oppressed. It took shape in the United States in the late 1960s.

• Open Theism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Open theism is a theological view holding that God does not foreknow future free choices as settled facts and that part of the future remains open. It became the subject of major controversy within American evangelicalism in the 1990s.

• Kim Cha-suk

  [People]

  Kim Cha-suk was the wife of Han Sang-dong, a Presbyterian minister who led the movement of resistance to Shinto shrine worship during Japanese colonial rule in Korea. She is reported to have married Han Sang-dong in 1921.

• Kim Dong-myung (pastor)

  [People]

  Kim Dong-myung was a Baptist pastor from Cheolsan, North Pyongan Province. In 1957 he founded the Korean Baptist Church of Los Angeles, laying the foundation for Korean ministry within the Southern Baptist Convention in the United States. He was the husband of Ahn Ei-sook, an activist who opposed Shinto shrine worship.