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7 Bogunyeogwan/ Ewha Womans
6 Ewha Hakdang (Academy)

University Seoul Hospital
26 Jeongdong gil, Jung gu https://ewha.hs.kr
260 Gonghang-daero, Gangseo-gu https://www.eumc.ac.kr/main.do

Bogunyeogwan is Korea’s first modern Western-style women’s hospital and medical
education institution established by Missionary Scranton in October 1887, shortly after
the Joseon mission began, and is the predecessor of the current Ewha Womans University
Medical School and Ewha Medical Center. Because Korean women could not receive
medical treatment from male doctors according to the Korean traditional rule (a boy and a
girl should not sit together after they have reached the age of seven) , Mary. F. Scranton opened the first
women’s clinic on October 31, 1887 with the support of Woman’s Foreign Missionary
Mary F. Scranton Ewha Hakdang (Ewha Museum) Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Dr. Meta Howard, the first female medical
missionary to Korea, became the first director of Bogunyeogwan.
Emperor Gojong named the clinic as Bogunyeogwan which means house for many sick
women. Bogunyeogwan produced Esther Park, the first female doctor in Joseon, and Grace
Lee and Martha Kim,
the first nurses.
“Ewha Hakdang began with one
student in May, 1886.”

Ewha girls’ high school Ewha Womans University
Hospital Dongdaemoon Hospital

Ewha Hakdang is the Korea’s first private modern educational institute for women which
was founded by Mary F. Scranton, a missionary who was dispatched from Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society, at Hwanghwabang, currently Jeongdong, Jun gu in 1886. Her
“The First Modern Western-Style
educational philosophy as a first principal of the school was “To nurture Korean women to
Women’s Hospital in Korea”
be better Korean under the Christian education”, in other words, “To restore the pride and
dignity of Koreans and to foster true Koreans.”
The following year, in February 1887, Emperor Gojong bestowed the name ‘Ewha hakdang’ Restoration of Bogunyeogwan (Magokdong)
on the girls’ school and sent a signboard through a diplomat. The school name Ewha (梨花, in
Chinese letters) means, “Bring pure, beautiful, and fragrant fruits like pear blossoms.”
Ewha Hakdang, which began with one student, gradually reorganized the interdisciplinary
system and established the middle school departments in 1904, the high school
departments in 1908, and finally established a consistent interdisciplinary system for
elementary, middle and high school courses. It produced five first middle school graduates
in June 1908, established 4-year college courses in 1910, and produced Korea's first female
college students, including Masila Shin, Hwa-sook Lee, and Ae-sik Kim in April 1914. In Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital
(Magokdong)
addition, Korea’s first Ewha kindergarten was established in 1914.