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2 Gwanghyewon
3 Chungdong First Methodist Church

Severance Hospital, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu
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Gwanghyewon, known as the first Western medical institution in Korea, was founded by
H. N. Allen (Korean name: An Ryeon 安蓮) , an American missionary, under the name of Royal Chungdong First Methodist Church
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Gwanghyewon (王立廣惠院: House of Extended Grace) in Jae-dong, Seoul on February 29 , 1885 (the
22nd year of Emperor Gojong's reign) . Allen came to Korea in September, 1884 as a medical
missionary from the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. As he saved a
royal relative, Min Young-ik who was seriously injured by being stabbed during the Gapsin
Coup, he became close to Emperor Gojong, and
was appointed as a doctor for the royal family. a bust of Appenzeller
He proposed the establishment of a hospital and “Gwanghyewon,
obtained Emperor Gojong’s permission. The Korea’s first Western-style
government enacted the Gwanghyewon Rules and national hospital!”
established Gwanghyewondangrang (廣惠院堂郞) as
the director of the national hospital, and invited
Allen, an American doctor, to treat patients.
Gwanghyewon was renamed as Chejungwon (濟衆
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院: House of Universal Helpfulness) on 12 March 12 , 12
days after its opening. As the number of patients “an church, always open near Deoksugung
visiting Chejungwon and the workload increased, Stonewall road”
missionary J.H. Heron joined and engaged in Centennial Memorial Tower
medical activities. Entrance of Gwanghyewon
As A. J. Elles, a female doctor came to Korea in The church started on October 11, 1885, when missionary Appenzeller first worshiped
1886, gynecology department was established with Koreans at his residence in Jeongdong. He is a missionary who arrived in Korea with
and the following year, Chejunwon was Underwood (a Presbyterian missionary) and he also tried to establish churches on this land by
moved to Hong Young-sik’s house (the current cooperating with Underwood as translating the Bible together.
location of the KEB headquarters at Euljiro) with the One day He was traveling with Hankyu Cho, a Korean assistant, and a girl student from
government’s sponsorship. There is a reason Chungshin Hakdang to Mokpo to attend a meeting for the Bible translation and the ship
why Gwanghyewon (Chejungwon) was renamed as that he was on crashed with another ship, and he passed away. According to Bowlby,
Severance Hospital. While Oliver R. Avison was on a miner who survived from the ship collision, despite having enough time to escape,
furlough in North America in 1899, he was invited Appenzeller went down to save the Korean assistant and the girl in the third class cabin.
to speak at a conference of missions in New York Pastor Lee Pil-ju, one of the 33 national representatives, was in charge of Jeongdong
City. He reported about medical mission work First Church during the March 1st Movement. Therefore, the entire church members
in Korea, and Louis Severance was among the participated in the March 1st Movement. It was a church with the nation. Chungdong First
audiences. Severance got impressed by his speech Methodist Church started building Bethel Chapel, the first Western-style Korean Protestant
the first Western medical institution
and donated US$45.000 to Chejungwon. When a in Korea (Chejungwon) building, built in 1897. The church also took the lead in introducing new cultures to Korea
new hospital was built, Chejungwon subsequently through the first pipe organ that was dedicated and the church choir led by Kim In-sik and
changed its name to Severance Hospital in 1904. Lee Heung-ryul. The Church has Mangon Christian History Archive.