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131 Jeonju Sinheung High School 132 Richardson Memorial Hall

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The Building is in Jeonju Sinheung High School. Founded in 1900, Sinheung High School
Jeonju Sinheung High School was is the first modern educational facility in the southern part of the Han River, and it has not
established on September 9, 1900 by only suffered a painful history of voluntarily closing the school in 1937 refusing worship of
missionary William Davis Reynolds, who shrines, but also contributed greatly to Christian mission work in Honam area, including
translated most of the Revised Version of Jeju Island.
“Along with local leaders, the Bible still used by the Korean church. The auditorium and gymnasium building, which was built with the donation of Mrs.
Shinheung High School Missionary Reynolds visited Korea as Richardson in 1936, and the porch of the main building, which remained after a fire in
students actively led the March a missionary from American Southern 1982, were registered as cultural heritages. The Richardson Memorial Hall is a symbolic
13 Independence Movement.” Presbyterian Mission and established building of the missionary history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and has
Jeonju Sinheung High School while values of modern educational, architectural, Christian, and local history.
working in Jeonju.
The school motto is: Pursuing the Truth,
Practicing Love, and Realizing Justice.
Jeonju Sinheung High School took the
lead in the independence movement “Richardson Memorial
during the March 1st Movement and was Hall in Jeonju Sinheung
active in the movement against shrine High School, where
worship. When the Japanese colonial only Porch remains.”
rule persistently forced the shrine
worship, it closed itself. It is because of
the teachings of faith.

The front view of
Sinheung High
School

Jeonju March 1st Independence Movement
Monument at the main gate of Sinheung View of the auditorium and the porch in A red brick auditorium and the main building
High School Jeonju Sinheung High School, the National beyond the Jeonju March 1st Independence
Registered Cultural Property No. 172 Monument