Colonial Period (1910-1945)
under construction
1910
![]() Aug 22 The Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty was signed illegally
Aug. 29 Korea was annexed to Japan ♣ See 1995 Prime Minister Muraya’s apology
Sept. Many barber’s shops were opened for cutting off the topknots
Sept. The number of foreign missionaries in Korea:
306 Americans, 90 Englihs, 50 French, 3 German, 4 Russians
Sept. The Methodist Church had 50,000 Koreans (probationers 18,134 Full members
6,590 inquireres 25,276); 50 local preachers, 165 exhorters, 12 Korean ordained
deacons, and 2 Korean ordained elders
Sept. 12 Iljin-hoe (a pro-Japanese society) was dissolved (members 140,725)
Yi Yonggu’s Sich’ôn-gyo continued
Sept. 13 Yi Chaemyong was executed (for his failed assassination of Yi Wanyong)
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1911
Jan. 1
Jan. 11 The Christian News 그리스도회보 founded
Jan. 23 The Roman Catholic Church organized the Seoul and Taegu Dioceses
Feb. Bible School at Sônch’ôn organized
![]() ![]() ![]() April The first Korean Bible (the Old & New Testaments) was published
June 17 Severance Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association organized in Seoul
![]() July 25 Anglican Bishop Mark Trollope was consecrated Bishop of the English Church
Mission in Korea
Aug. 2 Korean Christian leaders visited Japan
Aug. 23 Educational Regulations issued
Sept. Conspiracy Case of assassination of Gov. Terauchi & arrests of Christians began
Oct. The first Southern Methodist ministers, 金興順, 鄭春洙, 朱漢明, were ordained
Methodist Union Theological Seminary established in Seoul
Nov-Dec. Presbyteries of Cholla, Kyongch’ung, Kyongsang, & Hwanghae organized
1912
Feb. The New Bible House in Seoul was completed.
![]() June 1 The first annual meeting of the Seoul Foreign School Association.
Sept. 16 The Seoul Foreign School opened with a teacher Miss Van Waggoner
Sept. 18 The dedication of Andong Presbyterian Church in Seoul
Sept. 21 The Korea Holiness Bible Institute of the OMS opened.
Sept. Mr. and Mrs. Bunker came back at their post in Seoul with a niece and an
adopted daughter.
1913
![]() 99 were released as innocent; six men, guilty, appealed to the Suprem Court
(Yun Chiho, Yang Kitak, Yi Sunghun, An Taeguk, Im Chijong, Ok Kwanbin)
March 29 The affiliation of the Korean YMCA with the Japanese YMCA was decided
1914
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March 5 The Chosen Christian College was organized
April The Chosen Christian College opened at the building of YMCA
1916
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1918
1919
![]() ![]() March First Independence Movement. See The Korean Provisional Government, “The Korean Independence Movement” (Shanghai: Oriental Press, 1919).
April 19 The cornerstone of the administration building of the Chosen Christian College
1921
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![]() ![]() ![]() Kim Taejin 김태진, 새죠션 The New Korea (Seoul:RTSk)
1935
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The Revised Version Korean Bible (NT & OT) was publihsed.
1943
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