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155 Mokpo Gongsaeng Won 156 Yeongam Eup Church

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Gongsaeng Won (the place of cohabitation) began in 1928 when Evangelist Yun Chi-ho lived
with seven children wandering the streets because they had nothing to eat. Later, during
the Korean War, 500 children who had nowhere to go lived together at Gongsaeng Wong
and they were raised by the sacrifice and love of Yun Chi-ho and his wife, Yun Hak-sa,
a Japanese woman. Gongsaeng Won literally means ‘living together.’ So far, about 3,700
children have grown up here and became the members of society. The two took care of the
children at Gongsaeng Won and practiced Jesu’ love throughout their lives.
Evangelist Yun was also a nationalist with a strong national spirit who was taken, detained,
and tortured 48 times during the Japanese colonial period. At that time, Korean Churches
succumbed to the Japanese oppression and decided to allow the shrine visit. However, he
refused to visit the shrine and was arrested by the Japanese police. He is evaluated as a rare
person who kept the truth of faith and the national spirit to the end.
Mokpo people consider former President Kim Dae Jung, poet Kim Ji-ha, and singer Lee
Nan-young as great people produced by their hometown. In addition, they remember
Yun Chi-ho and Yun Hak-sa, who devotedly cared for war orphans, as beautiful people of Yeongam Eup Church
Mokpo. martyr memorial stone

“Dear Twenty-four members on
the dark day of the Korean War.
Wait till the Lord comes!”

In 1915, Jo Myeong Sun, an assistant sent
by missionaries who stayed in Mokpo,
Monument to Yun Chi-ho and Chapel The tower of Mother of Mokpo
Yun Hak-sa prepared a prayer house in Gyodong-ri,
Yeongam-myeon. It is the beginning of
Yeongam Eup Church in Jeolla-do.
“The history of Mokpo Gongsaeng Won is the oldest social welfare
The chapel was first built in 1920 at the site
facility in Honam with 95 years of history and it is a Christian holy site.”
of the current police station, 127 Seonam-ri,
Yeongam-myeon. During the Korean War,
24 members of the Yeongam Eup Church
were martyred. In spite of this circumstance,
the church established Yeong-ae Won (an
orphanage) in 1951 and took care of more
than 40 war orphans.
Dormitory martyr memorial stone