8.0.1          407 missionaries to Korea in 1910, 60% of them were SVM-recruited

                  missionaries. Total 404 SVM missionaries to Korea during 1906-1923.

                  More than 25 missionaries were Northfield Mt Hermon graduates.

      8.0.2          SVM missionaries built 800 schools for 45,000 students and

                   educational opportunities were given to women and the handicapped. 

      8.0.3          Established modern medicine and hospitals throughout the country:

                  Severance and many local hospitals.

      8.0.4          YMCA movement: Evangelized young Korean leadership and

                   enlightened suburban areas.

      8.0.5          Pyong Yang was the biggest mission station in the world (1930s);

                  Korean Pentecost (1907), One Million Souls Movement (1909).    

      8.0.6          Currently the most evangelical country in Asia (2^nd biggest missionary

                  providing; ten of the eleven largest churches in the world are in Seoul.

                  World’s largest theological seminary in Seoul)

      8.0.7          World’s 10^th largest Economic Power (World Bank, 2005)

8.1         Providential Relationship: Northfield Mt. Hermon and Korea

      8.1.1          Exiled Korean Prince, Uichinwang Kang Yi and Kyusik Kim,

                  an adopted son of first missionary, Underwood, future President

                  of Korea, Syngman Rhee, and leaderships participated in the

                  Northfield Conference (1898, 1903, 1906)

      8.1.2          Many SVM-recruited American and Canadian missionaries’ kids

                  were born in Korea and came to the Northfield Mt. Hermon They later

                  became second generation SVM missionaries to Korea. (Appenzeller,

                  Moffett, Baird, Avison, Hardie, Miller, Swallen, Adams, Ross, Noble,

                  Hall, Sharrocks, Hunt, Wells etc.)

      8.1.3          Many young Korean Christians were sent to the school by the

                  missionaries, and became key leadership back in Korea. First

                  Korean student to Northfield was Hi-Byung Pak (1898), a patriot

                  and frontier of Korean American immigrant, from The Christian and

                  Missionary Alliance, Nyack, NY (Dr. Albert Simpson), an origin of

                  Korea’s Full Gospel Church

      8.1.4          Yun-jung Kim, a chargé d'affaires of Korean Legation in Washington DC

                  and Mayor of Chemulpo (Inchon), a gate of Korea for missionaries, and

                  his brother and son went to the school from 1901 with references from

                  the pastor of the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC, who

                  baptized Syngman Rhee, first President of Korea.

                  Many of the aristocratic young leadership also studied at Northfield

                  Mt. Hermon School.    

 
                  Korean Big Three came to the school in 1914:
                  Byung-sik Lyhm (first ambassador to U.N. and Minister of Foreign Affairs)
                  Choon-ho Yi (first Korean president of Seoul National University & Vice-
                  Minister of Education),
                  Young-sun Yun (first Minister of Agriculture) came with help of
                  Frank Brockman, great YMCA missionary to Korea and a graduate of
                  Northfield Mt. Hermon; and recommendation letter of Syngman Rhee
                  who was fighting against Japanese Military Government.