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Korea in the Modern Era

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unusual event became the energy for the evangelization of the
nation by the Koreans themselves. By 1910, 1 per cent of the
population was Protestant. The Japanese Protestant Church, with
a longer history, has yet to achieve this figure. There were mis-
sion stations in every corner of Korea, and everywhere schools
were created and medical work carried on along with pure
evangelism. One important result of the missionaries’ social out-
reach was that the Korean Christians came to see that they too
should found Christian schools for their people. Many schools in
Korea today claim a Christian, but not a mission, foundation due
to the efforts of Korean Christians in this decade.

Much of the success of the Protestant churches in the first
twenty-five years after the arrival of the missionaries was due to
the association of Christianity with the ‘progressive’ West, and to
the emphasis which the first generation of missionaries placed on
the responsibility of local Christians for the growth and support
of their churches. By the end of this first decade of the new
century, the first seminaries had been founded, the first seminary
graduates had graduated, and the first class of Korean ministers
had been ordained. In 1908 all Protestant missionaries, except the
High Church Anglicans, had agreed upon a comity arrangement
dividing the peninsula into spheres of interest (see Fig. 17). A vote
taken at the same time by the missionaries to create a united
church was, sadly, rejected by the home churches in North Amer-
ica. Before the absorption of Korea into the Japanese Empire, the
Protestant churches were thriving institutions supported and sus-
tained locally and with the beginnings of an indigenous clergy.
The churches also had the only complete system of Western-style
education in Korea prior to the development of the Japanese
government schools. The background was set for a bitter struggle
between the church and the new colonial government.

2. T.HE CHURCH UNDER JAPANESE COLONIAL RULE

In the second decade of the twentieth century, Korean Christians
began more and more to take a prominent place in the affairs of
the church and in society as a whole. One indication of this
prominence was the Conspiracy Trial of 1912. 124 persons were
accused of attempting to assassinate the Governor-General,

The Advent of Protestantism

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