Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Secretaries' Files: Korea Mission

Descriptive Summary

Title

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Secretaries' Files: Korea Mission

Inclusive Dates

1903-1972

Bulk Dates

1911-1972

Call Number

RG 140

Creator(s)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations.

Quantity

19.00 cubic feet (19 boxes)

Restrictions on Access

Open for research.

Box 16, folders 43A and 44A are restricted and closed until 2060 (folder 43A) and 2061 (folder 44A) unless permission is granted by PHS Executive Director.

Digital Content

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Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Administrative History

Presbyterian work in Korea commenced in 1884 when Dr. and Mrs. Horace Allen of the Shanghai station were transferred to Korea, then referred to as Chosen. Early mission work centered in Seoul and Pyengyang and eventually nine stations were established. The others included: Taiku (1899); Syenchyuin (1901); Chairyung (1906); Chungju (1908); Kangkai (1908); Andong (1910); and Hingkin in Manchuria (1918). Mission work in Korea was done in cooperation with several other denominations that included Methodists; Southern, Canadian and Australian Presbyterians; Baptists; Anglicans. The Presbyterians and Methodists constituted the two largest groups operative in Korea. The first Protestant Church was organized in 1887 in Seoul. In 1907, all four Presbyterians groups established the Union Presbyterian Church of Korea.

Medical work played a prominent role in the Presbyterian Church's missionary efforts in Korea. A hospital was established in Pyengyang in 1896 in conjunction with the Methodists. In 1885, Dr. Horace Allen founded the Royal Korean Hospital in Seoul that eventually became the Severance Union Hospital, Medical College and Nurses Training School. The Church's educational work commenced rather late and was complicated by a variety of difficulties, one of which being language. Primary schools, academies for boys and girls, a theological seminary and several colleges (in Seoul and Pyengyang) eventually were developed. The theological seminary in Seoul was operated in cooperation with the Methodists and represented only one example of denominational cooperation. Others included the Pierson Memorial Bible School, the Christian Literature Society and the Union Language School.

Mission work in Korea was complicated by several factors not common to other missions. The presence of the Japanese from 1910 until 1945, for example, did much to undermine the work of the missionaries, especially during the 1930s. The Shrine Issue, for instance, though superficially a patriotic concern, reduced the role of the Church in Korea to the will of the Japanese Emperor. The divisiveness that it caused was clearly manifested both before as well as after the Second World War. Likewise, the Korean War caused a period of retrenchment for the Church from which the effects are still being felt.

Collection Overview

Organization and Arrangement

Alternative Formats

Administrative Information

Processing Information

This record group was not given a high quality of processing, as is evident from the lack of physical order in the series listed above. Researchers will have to use patience, ingenuity and perseverance to find specific materials.

"Field correspondence" generally holds the following categories of materials:

a. Cables (Miscellaneous).
b. Apportionment of Work: Station Lists (mostly pre-WWII).
c. Mission Annual Meeting; Executive Committee Minutes (typescript); related correspondence.
d. Mission Budget; Financial resume papers.
e. Station Quarterly Letters (scattered).
f. "Publicity" articles (MS) contributed by missionaries.
g. General correspondence: Board-Korean Christians.
h. Miscellaneous correspondence (see no. 2, below).

The calendars to correspondence available in this collection are but partially reliable guides to contents. Letters missing from calendared files may be found in appropriate subject files.

Cooperating Board correspondence contains extensive Mission correspondence with the Board, and with the BFM.

Materials under the following subject headings were microfilmed before this collection was processed:

-Conspiracy Case: 1912-1920
-Korea Independence Movement: 1919-1920
-Religious Education Controversy: 1915-1919

Materials created before 1911 have been microfilmed; researchers are advised to consult the calendars in the library.

Collection processed and finding aid prepared: February 1979
Robert A. Goldstein, Assistant Records Researcher

Finding aid revised: March 1992
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist

Catalog Headings

Corporate Subject

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission.

Topical Subject

Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century.

Missions--Korea--20th century.

Geographic Subject

Korea--Missions--20th century.

Korea--History--Japanese occupation, 1910-1945.

Korea--History--Independence movement, 1919.

Korea--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1948.

Korea--Church history--20th century.

Genre-form

Correspondence. aat

Reports. aat

Minutes (administrative records) aat

Financial records. aat

Corporate Added Name

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission.

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description	Alternative Formats

1	1	Finding Aid to Record Group 140

1	2	Mission History--miscellaneous papers
1	3	"History of the Taiku Mission," 1907
1	4	History of the Korea Mission (manuscript), undated
1	5	Historical/Contemporary Survey of Korea Mission, submitted to U.N. Korean Reconstruction Agency, 1953
1	6	Constitutions: Mission (and Mission-related) Institutions

		SERIES 11: MISCELLANEOUS, 1907-1971

1	7	Report of visit to Chosen Mission, Dr. C.B. McAfee, 1925
1	8-9	Surveys of Mission Work of the Chosen Mission, 1923-1933
1	10	Outline Summary of the Work (by Station), 1937
1	11	"Report on Presbyterian Missions in Korea as of November 15, 1950"
1	12	Statistical Study of the Korea Mission, 1968
1	13	Korean Religious Tract Society vs. Parsons Trading Co, exhibits, correspondence, 1913-1914
1	14	Dr. H.G. Underwood, 1916
1	15	(Missionary) Language School, Background papers, 1922, 1933-1934
1	16	Korean Students (Mission-related) in America, 1926-1941
1	17	Korean Nationals (at home; abroad), 1963-1966
1	18-19	Pai, Minsoo--BFM correspondence 1932-1950
1	20	Jubilee Celebration of Chosen Mission, 1934-1935
1	21	(Missionary) Taech'on Beach Association, 1957-1958
1	22	Kim, Myung Sun (M.D.), Itineration in U.S. 1959-1960
1	23	Pyeng Yang Foreign Cemetery Fund, 1964, 1966, 1969
1	24	Resettlement of Koreans in Brazil, 1966
1	25	Mission Employees'(Nationals) Housing Dispute, 1968-1970
1	26	Inter-Church Center Building Project (Seoul), 1968-1971
1	27-29	RAVEMCO/Korea Radio Project, 1949-1970

		SERIES 10: MISSION PROPERTY, 1911-1972

1	30	Fusan, Milyang, Property and Field Transfer matters, 1912-1921; future of Junkin Memorial Hospital, 1912-1913
1	31	Correspondence; Descriptive; Background papers, 1914-1942
1	32	1946-1962
1	33	(Compiled) North Korea Property Reclamation Data, 1961
1	34	Correspondence; Descriptive; Background papers, 1963-1966
1	35	(Partial) Inventory of Real Property Holdings, with Appraised Values, 1964
1	36	Correspondence; Descriptive; Background papers, 1967-1972
1	37	(Mission) Statistical Reports, Correspondence with Field, 1911, 1922-1935
1	38	Budget; Financial papers, 1948-1953
1	39	Five-Year Programs, Outline papers, 1948, 1955-1957, 1964
1	40-42	Currency Exchange Problem, Correspondence, 1956-1959
1	43	Exchange/Cost-of living Problems, Correspondence; Background papers, 1963-1965

		SERIES 2: CORRESPONDENCE, 1909-1972

		BOARD CIRCULAR LETTERS TO MISSION, 1913-1951; FIELD SECRETARY CIRCULAR LETTERS TO MISSION, 1952-1971
2	1	Board Letters (scattered) missing from series, #64-#371
2	2	1913
2	3	1915
2	4-27	1917-1942
2	28-30	1945-1951
2	31	Field Secretary Letters (some missing), 1952-1954	Digital
2	32	Some missing, 1955-1961	Digital
2	33	Some missing, 1955-1961	Digital
2	34	Some missing, 1955-1961	Digital
2	35	Commission Representative Letters (scattered), 1964-1971	Digital

		FIELD, EXECUTIVE AND TREASURER'S CORRESPONDENCE, 1910-1972
3	1-31	Calendared Field and Executive Correspondence, 1911-1925

4	1-17	Executive Correspondence, 1926-1941
4	18-53	Field Correspondence, 1910-1945

5	1-16	Executive Correspondence, 1946-1962
5	17	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1954	Digital
5	18	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1954	Digital
5	19	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1955	Digital
5	20	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1955	Digital
5	21	Executive Correspondence; Miscellaneous, 1955	Digital
5	22	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1956	Digital
5	23	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1956	Digital
5	24	Executive Correspondence; Miscellaneous, 1956	Digital
5	25	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1957	Digital
5	26	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1957	Digital
5	27	Executive Correspondence; including correspondence regarding Exchange, January-June 1958	Digital
5	28	Executive Correspondence; including correspondence regarding Exchange, July-December 1958	Digital
5	29	Treasurer's correspondence, 1958	Digital
5	30	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1959	Digital
5	31	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1959	Digital
5	32	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1960	Digital
5	33	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1960	Digital
5	34	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1961	Digital
5	35	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1961	Digital
5	36	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1962	Digital
5	37	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1962	Digital
5	38	Treasurer's Correspondence, 1962	Digital

6	1	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1963	Digital
6	2	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1963	Digital
6	3	Treasurer's Correspondence, 1963	Digital
6	4	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1964	Digital
6	5	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1964	Digital
6	6	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1965	Digital
6	7	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1965	Digital
6	8	Executive Correspondence, January-March 1966	Digital
6	9	Executive Correspondence, April-June 1966	Digital
6	10	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1966	Digital
6	11	Executive Correspondence, January-March 1967	Digital
6	12	Executive Correspondence, April-June 1967	Digital
6	13	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1967	Digital
6	14	Executive Correspondence, January-June 1968	Digital
6	15	Executive Correspondence, July-December 1968	Digital
6	16	Executive Correspondence, 1969	Digital
6	17	Executive Correspondence, January-May 1970	Digital
6	18	Executive Correspondence, June-December 1970	Digital
6	19	Executive Correspondence, 1971-1972	Digital
6	20	Field Correspondence, 1946	Digital
6	21	Field Correspondence, 1947	Digital
6	22	Field Correspondence, 1948	Digital
6	23	Field Correspondence, 1949	Digital
6	24	Field Correspondence, 1950	Digital
6	25	Field Correspondence, 1951	Digital
6	26	Field Correspondence, 1952	Digital
6	27	Field Correspondence, 1953	Digital
6	28	Field Correspondence, 1954	Digital
6	29	Field Correspondence, 1955	Digital
6	30	Field Correspondence, 1956	Digital
6	31	Field Correspondence, 1957	Digital
6	32	Field Correspondence, 1958	Digital
6	33	Field Correspondence, 1959	Digital
6	34	Field Correspondence, 1960	Digital
6	35	Field Correspondence, 1961	Digital
6	36	Field Correspondence, 1962	Digital
6	37	Field Correspondence, 1963	Digital
6	38	Field Correspondence, 1964	Digital
6	39	Field Correspondence, 1965	Digital
6	40	Field Correspondence, 1966	Digital
6	41	Field Correspondence, 1967	Digital
6	42	Field Correspondence, 1968	Digital
6	43	Field Correspondence, 1969	Digital
6	44	Field Correspondence, 1970	Digital

		SERIES 1: REPORTS, 1911-1971

6	45-56	Station Reports to Mission, 1912-1913, 1917, 1919-1929

7	1-15	Station Reports to Mission, 1930-1965
7	16	Station Reports to Mission, 1954	Digital
7	17	Station Reports to Mission, 1955	Digital
7	18	Station Reports to Mission, 1956	Digital
7	19	Station Reports to Mission, 1957	Digital
7	20	Station Reports to Mission, 1958	Digital
7	21	Station Reports to Mission, 1959	Digital
7	22	Station Reports to Mission, 1960	Digital
7	23	Station Reports to Mission, 1961	Digital
7	24	Station Reports to Mission, 1962	Digital
7	25	Station Reports to Mission, 1963	Digital
7	26	Station Reports to Mission, 1964	Digital
7	27	Station Reports to Mission, 1965	Digital
7	28	Educational Institution reports, 1911-1938
7	29	Medical Institution reports, 1915-1941
7	30-58	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1913-1941
7	59-63	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1949-1969, 1971
7	64	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1954	Digital
7	65	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1955	Digital
7	66	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1956	Digital
7	67	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1957	Digital
7	68	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1958	Digital
7	69	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1959	Digital
7	70	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1960	Digital
7	71	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1961	Digital
7	72	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1962	Digital
7	73	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1963	Digital
7	74	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1964	Digital
7	75	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1965	Digital
7	76	Institutions/Projects--Annual Reports, 1966	Digital

8	1	Missionary Reports, miscellaneous, 1916-1941
8	2-25	Quarterly and annual, 1911-1925

9	1-24	Quarterly and annual, 1926-1937

10	1-8	Quarterly and annual, 1938-1942
10	9-27	Quarterly and annual, 1947-1970

		SERIES 2: CORRESPONDENCE, 1909-1972 (CONTINUED)

		MISSIONARY PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1909-1931, 1965
10	28	Miscellaneous correspondence, 1965
10	29	Avison, Dr./Mrs. O.R, 1931
10	30	Bergman, A.L, 1927
10	31	Brownlee, R.B., 1915-1917
10	32	Chase, M.L., 1911, 1915
10	33	Erdman, Rev./Mrs. W.C., 1909-1914, 1929-1930
10	34	Gillis, Rev./Mrs. A.W., 1922-1923
10	35	Greenfield, Rev. M.W., 1915-1916
10	36	Hanson, M.L., 1927-1930
10	37	Helstrom, H., 1927
10	38	Lyon, Rev./Mrs. W.B., 1928-1930
10	39	McCune, Rev./Mrs. G.S., 1927
10	40	McFarland, Rev. E.F., 1923-1927
10	41	Pieters, Rev./Mrs. A.A., 1927-1998
10	42	Purviance, Dr./Mrs. W.C., 1917-1931
10	43	Renich, Rev. E.A., 1913
10	44	Ross, Rev./Mrs. C., 1926-1928
10	45	Smith, Rev. W.E., 1917-1918
10	46	Soltau, Mr./Mrs. D.L., 1929
10	47	Tipton, Dr./Mrs. S.P., 1926
10	48	Toms, Rev./Mrs. J.U.S., 1923-1924
10	49	Wells, Dr./Mrs. J.H., 1915-1918

		MISSIONARY CIRCULAR "DEAR FRIENDS" LETTERS, 1914-1965
10	50	1914-1915, 1918
10	51-55	1920-1942
10	56	1959-1965

		SERIES 9: PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN KOREA/CHURCH AND MISSION MINISTRY TO CHINESE AND JAPANESE, 1903-1972

11	1	Establishment of Church Union in Korea, 1903-1906
11	2	Taiku Central Church, 1923-1932
11	3	Seoul Presbytery and the Korean Church controversy, 1934-1936
11	4	Proposed "Joint Committee" for Korea, 1948
11	5	1952-1957
11	6	Church-Mission Consultation, June 1957
11	7	Mission-Church Cooperative Work, 1958-1960
11	8-9	Schism, 1959-1960
11	10	Department of Cooperative Work (DCW), 1961-1962
11	11	Interboard/Korean Church Consultation (May 1964), 1963
11	12-14	Post-Consultation, 1964-1968
11	15	Partnership in Mission (with BFM); with other Boards/Missions, 1969-1970, 1972
11	16	Church-Mission Cooperative Arrangements; Inter-Bd. Arrangements, Rules/By-Laws; Agreements, 1948-1969
11	17	Korean FCC, Statistics, 1926-1927; FCC Social Services / Mission Social Services, Background papers, 1937-1940
11	18	KNCC (National Christian Council of Korea), 1946-1952
11	19	KNCC (National Christian Council of Korea), 1954-1960
11	20	KNCC (National Christian Council of Korea), 1961-1963, 1967-1971
11	21	Korea Church World Service, 1955-1958
11	22	Japanese in Korea, 1912, 1924, 1935
11	23	Korean Presbyterian Church--Missionary Work (Japan; China; general), 1930-1931, 1934, 1939
11	24	Mission Work in Manchuria, 1913-1936; Mission to Chinese in Korea, 1927
11	25	Chinese Churches in Korea, 1947-1967

		SERIES 8: MISSION COLLEGE CONTROVERSY, 1905-1923

11	26-27	Correspondence; Background papers, 1905-1913
11	28	1913
11	29	BFM correspondence with J.E. Adams (Secretary, Senate of the Educational Federation of Christian Missions in Korea), 1913-1914
11	30-31	Correspondence
11	32-33	Background papers, 1914
11	34	1915
11	35	Reappraisal of Powers of BFM; Mission, 1916-1917
11	36	1917
11	37	"A Brief on the Subject of the Desirability of an Adjustment between Home Base and Field as relates to Field Administration," 1917
11	38	"Memorandum on Actions of the Chosen Mission and its Exec. Comm. regarding readjustment of the powers of the BFM and the Mission," 1918
11	39	Reappraisal of Powers of BFM; Mission, 1918-1919
11	40-44	1920-1923
11	45-46	Readjustment of Policy & Method in Chosen Mission, 1923-1925

		SERIES 7: MISSION SCHOOL CERTIFICATION CONTROVERSY/ACADEMY MAINTENANCE FUND SHRINE QUESTION, 1912-1943

12	1	Correspondence; Background papers, 1912-1914
12	2	Memorandum regarding the separation of Education and Religion in Chosen, 1915
12	3-5	1915-1916
12	6	Certification Controversy and the Syen Chyun Girls' Academy--Correspondence
12	7-9	1916-1923
12	10	Report of Speer Visit to Chosen Mission, Educational and Evangelistic Concerns, 1927
12	11-12	Mission Academies, 1923-1936
12	13	Index of BFM Actions Regarding Withdrawal from General Education in Chosen, 1936-1940
12	14-22	Shrine Question, 1935-1937
12	23	Petitions to BFM, 1937
12	24	Shrine Question and John D. Wells School (Seoul), 1937-1940
12	25-29	Correspondence; Background papers, 1938
12	30	Shrine Question and Chung Sin Girls' Academy (Seoul), 1939-1941
12	31	BFM Staff informal conference with certain members of Chosen Mission, Minutes, 1939
12	32	Chosen Mission Controversy, 1940
12	33	Shrine Question, 1940-1941, 1943

		SERIES 3: EDUCATIONAL WORK, 1903-1972

13	1	Survey of Korea Missionaries, 1944
13	2-3	Survey responses, PCUSA
13	4	Survey responses, PCUS
13	5-6	Survey responses, Methodist Episcopal
13	7	Survey responses, United Church of Canada

		Educational Institutions, Pre-WWII
13	8	Seoul Girls' Academy, 1903-1938
13	9	Seoul Boys' Academy (John D. Wells School), 1904, 1913
13	10	Pyengyang Foreign School, 1911-1937
13	11	Pyengyang Girls' Academy; Boys' Academy, 1913-1929
13	12	Seoul Foreign School, 1914-1941
13	13-14	Pyengyang Union Christian College, 1916-1938; Reports, 1911-1921
13	15	Pyengyang Theological Seminary (Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Korea), 1917-1940
13	16	Ewha Women's College (Seoul), 1922-1947	Digital
13	17	Keisung Academy (Taiku); Taiku Bible Institute, 1928-1946

		Educational Institutions, Post-WWII
13	18	General, 1948-1970; Korea Educational Survey Correspondence
13	19	Work for the Blind, 1951, 1964
13	20	Korea Council of Christian Education, 1953-1965
13	21	"Four-College Merger Plan," 1966-1969
13	22	Ewha Women's College (Seoul), 1947-1958
13	23	Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Chosen Theological Seminary), 1948-1962, 1971
13	24	Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 1953-1957
13	25	Soangsil Academy; Soong Ei Academy (Seoul), 1948-1959
13	26	Kyung Sin (John D. Wells) Academy; Chung Sin Academy (Seoul), 1948-1950, 1958-1959, 1966, 1968
13	27	Soong Sil College, 1952-1956; Correspondence, 1958, 1961
13	28-30	Keimyung Christian College (Taegu), 1953-1968
13	31-32	Seoul Woman's College, 1956-1972
13	33	Keisung Academy (Taegu), 1956-1958
13	34	Sinmyung Academy (Taegu), 1962-1963
13	35-37	Other Institutions, 1960-1972

		SERIES 4: BIBLE INSTITUTE/EVANGELISM/SUNDAY SCHOOLS/YOUTH AND RURAL WORK, 1911-1971

14	1-3	Arthur T. Pierson Memorial Bible School, 1911-1940
14	4	Korean Bible Institutes, 1914-1915
14	5	Evangelistic Work, 1907-1939; Christian Literature, 1924-1937
14	6	Bible Club Movement; Christian Literature, 1946-1970
14	7	Evangelism, "Unknown Donor Program," 1917-1922
14	8	Adams Evangelistic Fund, 1922-1927; Reports, 1925, 1928-1929
14	9	Social Evangelistic Center (Seoul), 1920-1936
14	10	Industrial Evangelism, 1957-1965
14	11	"Detailed Comments of Missionaries on Future of Evangelistic Work in Korea", 1957
14	12	Sunday Schools, 1914-1915, 1927, 1929
14	13	Sunday School Work (Korea Sunday School Association), 1927-1932
14	14	Young people's Work, Korean Student Christian Movement (etc.), 1953-1954, 1959-1968
14	15	"The Country Church in Korea," Paper, 1927; BFM-Mission correspondence; Background papers, 1928
14	16	Rural Work, Taejon Inter-Mission Project; Good Samaritan Project in Korea, 1948-1971

		SERIES 5: MEDICAL WORK/MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS, 1911-1971

14	17	Medical Work, 1911-1941; "Medical Missionary Policy in Korea," circa 1924	Digital
14	18	1948-1970	Digital
14	19	Licensing of Korea Medical Missionaries and Institutions, 1914-1923, 1931, 1933, 1940	Digital
14	20	Leper Work, Korean Committee of Mission to Lepers, 1919-1922, 1927, 1937
14	21	Duncan Memorial Hospital (Chungju), 1910-1934
14	22	Baker Memorial Hospital (Andong), 1911-1933
14	23	Hall Memorial Union Hospital (Caroline A. Ladd Hospital) (Pyengyang), 1914-1941
14	24	Presbyterian Hospital; Leper Hospital (Taiku), 1921-1941
14	25	Kennedy Memorial Hospital (Kangkei), 1926-1937
14	26	Presbyterian Hospital (Taegu); correspondence; background papers, 1947-1954	Digital
14	27	Presbyterian Hospital (Taegu); correspondence; background papers, 1955-1963	Digital
14	28	Presbyterian Hospital (Taegu); correspondence regarding Hospital Expansion Campaign, 1964-1965	Digital
14	29	Presbyterian Hospital (Taegu); correspondence; background papers, 1966	Digital
14	30	Presbyterian Hospital (Taegu); correspondence regarding building program, 1967	Digital
14	31	Presbyterian Hospital (Taegu); correspondence regarding administrative problems; miscellaneous financial papers, 1968	Digital
14	32	Presbyterian Hospital (Taegu); correspondence regarding administrative problems; miscellaneous financial papers, 1969	Digital
14	33	Presbyterian Hospital (Taegu); correspondence regarding administrative problems; miscellaneous financial papers, 1970	Digital
14	34	Amputee Project, Rehabilitation of Korean Amputees; correspondence; background papers, 1952-1954	Digital
14	35	Amputee Project, Rehabilitation of Korean Amputees; correspondence; background papers, 1955-1959, 1967	Digital
14	36	Tuberculosis Control Project, 1966-1971	Digital
14	37	Kojedo Community Health Project, 1968-1971	Digital

		SERIES 3: EDUCATIONAL WORK, 1903-1972 (CONTINUED)

		Cooperating Board for Christian Education in Chosen
15	1	Planning correspondence, 1912-1913
15	2-13	Administrative and general correspondence, Background papers, 1914-1941
15	14	"Inquiry on Future Cooperation in Higher Education in Korea," 1944	Digital

		Chosen Christian College
15	15	Annual and Dean's Annual Reports, 1919-1935	Digital
15	16	Field Board of Managers Annual and Special Meetings, Minutes (scattered), 1919-1935	Digital
15	17	Committee and Financial Reports, 1918-1923, 1925	Digital
15	18	Committee and Financial Reports, 1926-1928, 1930-1931; Reports (scattered) to Seoul Station, 1915-1938	Digital
15	19	1914-1938	Digital
15	20	1914-1938	Digital
15	21	1946-1960	Digital

		Severance Hospital and Medical College
15	22	Annual Reports; Treasurer's Reports, 1913-1927	Digital
15	23	1928-1932	Digital
15	24	Field Board of Managers, Minutes (scattered), 1919-1941	Digital
15	25	Budgets; Financial Statements, 1920-1933	Digital
15	26	Reports to Seoul Station, 1917-1927; Miscellaneous Reports, 1919-1933	Digital
15	27	Background papers, 1914-1933, undated	Digital
15	28	Correspondence, 1904-1905	Digital
15	29	Correspondence; Background papers, 1914	Digital
15	30-41	Correspondence; Background papers, 1914-1943

16	1-5	Correspondence; Background papers (includes postwar Board Minutes, scattered), 1948-1957

16	6	Yonsei University, 1957	Digital
16	7	Yonsei University, 1958-1959	Digital
16	8	Yonsei University, 1960-1964	Digital

		SERIES 6: KOREA CONSPIRACY/KOREAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT, 1911-1971

16	9	Conspiracy Case; correspondence; background papers, 1911-1912	Digital
16	10	Conspiracy Case; correspondence; background papers, 1911-1912	Digital
16	11	Conspiracy Case, 1913-1915, 1917, 1919	Digital
16	12	McCune Affair, 1914-1915	Digital
16	13	Independence Movement; correspondence; background papers, 1919	Digital
16	14	Independence Movement; correspondence; background papers, 1919	Digital
16	15	Independence Movement; correspondence; background papers, 1919	Digital
16	16	Independence Movement; correspondence; background papers, 1919	Digital
16	17	Independence Movement; background papers; (Anon.) letters from missionaries; miscellaneous correspondence, 1919	Digital
16	18	Mowry arrest/trial, 1919-1920	Digital
16	19	Japanese persecution of Christians in Korea; correspondence; background papers, 1920	Digital
16	20	Japanese persecution of Christians in Korea; correspondence; background papers, 1920	Digital
16	21	Japanese persecution of Christians in Korea, 1921	Digital

		World War II
16	22	Presbyterian Church in Korea; Korea Mission, General observations on conditions, 1938-1942	Digital
16	23	Partial Evacuation of Korea Mission, 1940	Digital
16	24	BFM correspondence with Furloughed Korea Missionaries, 1940-1943	Digital
16	25	Lowe-DeCamp Case; World Day of Prayer Affair, Field correspondence with Furloughed Missionaries, 1941	Digital
16	26	Mission Exec. Comm., Special Meetings Minutes; Related correspondence, 1942	Digital
16	27	Mission Members, Children of Members, Rosters, War Service Data, 1942-1945	Digital
16	28	Korea Mission Conference on Post-war Work, 1943	Digital
16	29	Re-establishment of Korea Mission work; 1943-1948	Digital
16	30	Korea Consultative Conference, 1944
16	31	Korea Mission, "Group A" Missionaries, Planning Conference for re-entry to Field, 1945	Digital
16	32	Mission Exec. Comm., Emergency Meetings, Agenda; Actions, October-December 1946	Digital
16	33	Reports, 1946-1947	Digital
16	34	Survey, Korea Mission, 1947	Digital
16	35	Post-War BFM Deputation to Korea, 1947	Digital
16	36	Mission Reorganization Minutes, 1948	Digital

		Korean War
16	37	Korean War, 1950	Digital
16	38	Korea Evacuee Advisory Committee, 1950-1952	Digital
16	39	Korean War, Correspondence, Background, Papers, Cables (including Reports, Bd. Missions to Korea), 1951	Digital
16	40	Chaplain's Report, Kojedo Prisoner of War Camp, 1951-1952	Digital
16	41	Rehabilitation; Normalization of Mission Work, 1952	Digital
16	42	Relief/Rehabilitation Funds, Financial Report, 1950-1954, 1954	Digital
16	43	Korean Orphans, Mission-Supported Orphanage Programs; Mixed-blood/Proxy Adoption, 1949-1964	Digital
16	43A	Adoption applications and correspondence, 1954-1965 [Restricted: Closed until 2060 unless permission granted by PHS Executive Director; available in digital format.]
16	44	Korean Orphans, Mission-Supported Orphanage Programs; Mixed-blood/Proxy Adoption, 1949-1964	Digital
16	44A	Adoption correspondence, 1960-1962 [Restricted: Closed until 2061 unless permission granted by PHS Executive Director; available in digital format.]
16	45	ECLAIR Project/Welfare of mixed-blood orphans, 1965-71	Digital

		SERIES 2: CORRESPONDENCE, 1909-1972 (CONTINUED)

		Missionary Personnel
17	1-21	1931-1939

18	1-20	1940-1954

19	1	Missionary personal correspondence: A-W, 1955-1957	Digital
19	2	Missionary personal correspondence: A-U, 1956-1957	Digital
19	3	Missionary personal correspondence: A-U, 1958	Digital
19	4	Missionary personal correspondence: A-K, 1959-1960	Digital
19	5	Missionary personal correspondence: L-W, 1959-1960	Digital
19	6	Missionary personal correspondence: A-H, 1961	Digital
19	7	Missionary personal correspondence: K-W, 1961	Digital
19	8	Missionary personal correspondence: A-M, 1962-1963	Digital
19	9	Missionary personal correspondence: P-W, 1962-1963	Digital
19	10	Missionary personal correspondence: A-W, 1964-1965	Digital

Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Secretaries' Files: Korea Mission

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