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The first Protestant missionaries in Korea (1832–1884)

Vostok/Oriens '2017, №2

 
The history of Protestantism in Korea counts no more than one hundred years. Protestantism, along with Catholicism and Orthodoxy, greatly contributed to the formation of the image of modern South Korea. Protestant missionaries were the first who at the end of the nineteenth – the beginning of the twentieth centuries introduced in Korea European medicine, education, equality of women, elements of the western culture, etc. However long before discovery of Korea for the Western culture and religions the first German and Scottish missionaries Charles Gutslav, Robert Thomas, John Ross and John McIntyre already took steps for penetration into the country closed from external relations. This article is devoted to their evangelical activities for Christianization of Koreans.

Keywords: Karl Gutslav, Scottish missionaries Robert Thomas, John Ross, John McIntyre, the demotic Korean alphabet Hangul, the first Protestant church in Sorae

Pages: С. 38–48