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Memorial Hall of Gyeongnam Mission 120 years.
In 2009, a warning letter was posted in front of the tomb of missionary McPhee buried at
the foot of Mt. Muhak in Masan that the landowner would take legal action if the tomb did
not be moved. For that reason, Kang Byeong-do, a chairman of Changshin University, and
Shin Seong-yong, a chairman of the Gyeongnam Holy City Movement Headquarters and
Masan Memorial Park, donated about 4.5-billion-won worth of land and the missionary
cemetery began to be made.
There are tombstones of a total of eight missionaries who died in Busan and South
Jinju Church the first church in Jinju Social Equality Movement Monument to
Gyeongsang Province. Included missionaries are 『Davis (Busan) , MacKay (Busan) , Adamson where ordinary people Commemoration Associ- missionary work
(Busan) , Wright (Busan) , Allen (Jinju) , Napier (Jinju) , McPhee (Masan) , Taylor (Jinju) , Minister Ju Gi-cheol and butchers worshiped ation (Former Jinju
together Theater)
(Jinhae) and Rev. Son Yang-won (Haman) 』. The Australian Missionary Cemetery is currently
operated by the Gyeongnam Holy City Movement Headquarters. “In front of God, all men are equal without discrimination"

When missionaries came to Joseon, they had some difficulties in the early stage due to
Korean customs. First, men and women were not allowed to sit together in the chapel due
to the Confucian Idea that a boy and a girl should not sit together after they have reached
the age of seven, so the place was separated by curtains or the chapel was made in L-shape
and a pulpit was placed on the corners to make men and women worship separately. The
second was a class society of social discrimination based on the aristocratic system. People
Memorial Epigraph of Australian Missionaries Australian Missionary Cemetery who slaughter livestock were called Baekjeong and could not sit with ordinary people in
one place. The first church in the Jinju was Okbong-ri (current, Bongrae-dong) Church, which
was established by missionary Currel in 1905, and the ordinary people and the butchers
“Missionaries were suffered from endemic disease
worshipped separately. In 1909, Pastor Lyall said, “In front of God, all men are equal
in Korea and died of it without names or glories.”
without discrimination”, and when they decided to worship together in one place, 200
people, except 30 people, left the church.
Afterwards, they continued to persuade them to worship
in one place from August 1 of that year, which was
a historical day of the social equity movement in
which the Korean church took the lead in eliminating
social discrimination. In April 2013, Jinju Church and
a social organization, the Social Equality Movement
Commemoration Association, set up a sign next to monument to social equality
movement (in front of Gyeong
the vision hall of Jinju Church to commemorate the -nam Culture and Art Center)
historical social equality movement and to convey it to
Memorial Hall of Gyeongnam Mission 120 years future generations.