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Hwangdeung Church was founded in 1921 by elder Gye Won-sik. Elder Gye Won-sik
“At first, Park Jae-shin
who was the director of Pyongyang Ki-seong Clinic moved to Hwangdeung established
opposed the women in
a Ki-seong Clinic, and a prayer meeting that began at the hospital is the origin of the
his family from going
Hwangdeung Church. Elder Gye Won-sik was excellent in medicine, so he was asked by the
to church, but when
Japanese to move to Gunsan and treat the Japanese, but he refused and devoted himself to
his wife, Han Jae-sun,
the poor and preached the gospel.
became pregnant, he
Dr. Gye Il-seung, who served as the dean of the Presbyterian University & Theological
offered his Sarangchae (a
Seminary, is the son of the elder Gye Won-sik. In 1944, church members including Gye
guest room) as a chapel,
Il-seung and Byun Young-soo performed a play criticizing the Japanese landlord at
and on May 18, 1923,
Hwandeung Church, and they were taken to a police station and tortured. During the
Dudong Church began.”
Korean War, elder Byun Young-soo and Deaconess Ahn In-ho, the Pastor Gye Il-seung’s
wife, and Lee Seong-kwon were slaughtered by the North Korean military. It is a church ㄱ shaped chapel of Dudong Church
that is putting a lot of effort into education by establishing Hwangdeung Middle School and
High School.
The missionary who first spread the gospel
to Dudong-ri, where Dudong Church is
located, was W. B. Harrison. He came to
“The Hwangdeung church has
Korea in 1896 and worked in Seoul and
the bell of love made in 1884,
Mokpo, and after 1915, he worked in
which is known as the oldest
Gunsan area. At this time, the women of
church bell in Korea.”
Park Jae-shin's family were attending Bugok
Church. Offspring of Park Jae-shin’s family
Dudong Church
was rare and precious. When Han Jae-soon,
Park Jae-shin’s wife, became pregnant,
Park Jae-shin offered his sarangchae as a gospel while wisely not going against
chapel. As the church grew, the current ‘ㄱ’ the Confucian culture of distinction
shaped chapel was built in 1929. between the sexes in the early days of
This chapel was designated as Jeonbuk missionary work. The seats for men
Cultural Heritage Material No. 179 on and women were arranged at right
April 6, 2002. Currently, Dudong Church, angles so that they could not see each
along with Geumsan Church in Geumsan, other, and the pulpit was located in the
Gimje, are the only ‘ㄱ’ shaped chapels center where the two axes meet. Both
remaining in Korea. This shows the wisdom male and female congregations are the
Memorial to 60th Anniversary of the
Hwangdeung Church Foundation of the Hwangdeung Church of our ancestors who tried to spread the same size, with three spaces.