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151 Jido Bongri Church 152 Mokpo Jeongmyeong Girls’ High School

765 Bongri-gil, Jido-eup, Sinan-gun 45 Samil-ro, Mokpo-si http://mpjm.hs.jne.kr

Jeongmyeong Girls’ High School in Mokpo was established in 1903 by the Presbyterian
Church in the U.S. It was renamed Jeongmyeong Girls' School in 1911. Teachers and
“It is the first non-smoking area in Korea.”
students led the independence movement in Mokpo during the March 1st Independence
“Sinan is said to be the village without three things.
Movement in 1919, and in 1921 they also led the independence movement in Mokpo. If
There are no shaman (mudang), no pub,
you go to Jeongmyeong Girls’ High School, you can see the houses of missionaries and the
and no ritual for a big catch of fish.”
western style buildings.
There are also monuments to independence movement and Park Hwaseong, a writer from
the school. While repairing the missionary’s houses in 1982, handouts such as the “Tokyo
Feb. 8 Declaration of Independence,” the March 1st Declaration of Independence, the
“Gwangju Tongnip Sinmun” and “Independence songs” that are presumed to have been
sent from Gwangju during the March 1 Independence Movement were found on the ceiling.

Bongri Church

It is the church Rev. Kim Jun-gon attended after he was
st
evangelized by preacher Moon Jun-Kyung. In October 1950, “The center of the March 1 Movement,
Rev. Kim Jun-gon's wife, daughter and father were martyred at Mokpo Jeongmyeong Girls’ High School”
the hands of the Communist Party. Next to the Bongri Church,
there are the tomb of Rev. Kim Jun-gon’s father, the tomb
of his mother, Kim Tong-an, and the tomb of his ex-wife, In
Jeong-jin, who was martyred by the Communist Party during
the Korean War. Kim Tong-an believed in Jesus through the
evangelism of Rev. Kim Jun-gon and became the first senior
deaconess of Bongni Church. Mokpo Jeongmyeong Girls' High
School, the center of the March 1st
Independence Movement."