2024
Lecture 1: “The Korean Term for God” CBS 잘잘법, Feb. 1, 2024
2023
Special Contribution Award, Korean Nursing Association, Nov. 2023
June 22. Special lecture, “Korean Messianism and Christianity,” Somnium, Seoul.
Feb. 20 International Symposium, “Contributions and Liabilities of Protestantism in Modern Korea,” hosted by Yonsei College, GE Institute of Yonsei University, Korean GE Society, and Christian Literacy Institute
Jan. 28 Meeting with the IM’s
2022
April 26. “John Ross and Korean Protestantism”,” Keynote Speech, 존 로스 한글 성경 번역 140주년 기념 학술 심포지엄, KBS & IKCH, Saemuan Church, Seoul. (Zoom)
April 27. A response to Dr. Jane Hong’s speech, “Korean American Presbyterians’ Activism Against Racism: Focusing on Three Figures,” NCKPC (National Caucus of Korean Presbyterian Churches) Jubilee events at the General Meeting. (Zoom)
2021
Nov. 10 Plenary Presentation, “Mission, Money, and the Nevius Method: Rethinking the Nevius Method of Korean Protestant Churches,” The 6th Korean Global Mission Leaders Forum (Pyeongchang, Korea). (Zoom)
Oct. 28 Plenary Presentation, “The Contesting Ideas of Medical Mission in Korea, 1884-1934,” Missiology Lectures 2021, “Re-envisioning the Mission of Health: A Global Invitation to Heal and Thrive in Crisis,” Fuller Theological Seminary. (Zoom)
Oct. 24 Zoom Lecture, “Words to Young Ministers: From the Perspective of the History of Korean Protestantism,” 미래목회와말씀연구원 (Seoul, Korea).
Sept 27, Oct 4, Oct. 11, Zoom Lectures on the History of Korean Christianity, Association of Korean Ministers in Europe
June 24, Zoom lecture, “Modern Korean Society and Christianity,” Sonnium, Seoul.
March 3. Zoom Seminar Lecture on Sermons and Korean History for Korean American Church Ministers Chicago Area
Feb. 26 Zoom Book Talk on The Making of Korean Christianity for the general audience in Korean.
Feb. 21-22 Zoom Lecture, “History of Korean Protestantism, 1945-now,” Atlanta and Living Water Sub-Presbyteries, GA & FL.
Feb. 21 Zoom Lecture, “Let’s Talk about Today’s Korean Protestant Churches,” Sum and Swim Institute, Kwangju, Korea.
Feb. 7 Zoom Lecture, “Today’s Korean Protestantism and the Pandemic,” God’s Will Gwangsung Presbyterian Church, Seoul.
Feb. 5, 2021, Zoom Lecture, “Post-Covid-19 Korean Christianity,” Woori Management Institute, Christian Management Institute, Seoul.
Jan. 31, 2021 Zoom Lecture, “History of Korean Protestantism during the Colonial Period,” God’s Will Gwangsung Presbyterian Church, Seoul.
Jan. 24, 2021, Zoom Lecture, God’s Will Gwangsung Presbyterian Church, Seoul. “History of Early Korean Protestantism”
2020
Nov. 12 Zoom Paper presentation, Institute of Religious Culture, Chonnam University, Kwangju, Korea
Nov. 2 Zoom Lecture, Nehemiah Institute for Christian Studies, Seoul
Sept. 15 Zoom speech, National Caucus of Korean Presbyterian Churches, PCUSA
Feb. 18 Hosted thirteen middle school students from Korea
2019
June 3, Talk with first-generation KA Christians from Philadelphia
April 28, Im Conference at UCLA
2018
Nov. 26 presided over a panel of the Korea Religion Unit, AAR Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
Oct. 18 special lecture at the conference of the North America Korea Philosophy Association at Stanford University, “Discourses on Religions and Politics by Korean Confucian-Christians, 1882-1910”
Aug. 13 lecture at a seminary alumni conference meeting at UCLA, “Jerusalem of Korea versus Korea of Jerusalem, 1920-1930.”
May 17 Senior Scholar Lecture at the depart. of Religious Studies, Seogang University “The Birth of Northwest Christianity in Korea, 1890-1930”
May 15, 2018 Paper presentation, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Seoul, “Theology of the Presbyterian Th. Seminary at Pyongyang, 1901-1940”
2017
Dec. 12. lecture at Choonghyun Mission Church, Los Angeles
Nov. 18 keynote speech at LA Christian Ethic Movement
Aug. 14-18 lecture for K D.Min program at Fuller Theological Seminary
July-Aug. CBS TV, Academy Forest, Six Lectures “A New History of Early Korean Protestantism“
2016
April 22, UCLA Center for Korean Studies, 2016 Im Conference of Korean Christianity
2015
Dec. 10, Interviewed for the KBS 1 Special Documentary Film: Avison’s Service for Korea for 42 Years
Nov. 30 lectured “The Making of Korean Protestant Christianity” at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Seoul
Nov. 30 lectures “Historical Issues in the Open Port Period and Korean Christianity” at the Good Teachers Movement, Seoul
Nov. 24 presented a paper on the “History of the Korean Bible Society, 1945-2002” at the 120th anniversary of the KBS, Seoul
Nov. 23 presented a paper on the “Early Nursing Education in Korea” at the National Congress Forum for the Woman History Museum
http://www.segye.com/content/html/2015/11/23/20151123003091.html
Nov. 20 presented a paper “Mission Educational Thought in the Foundation Days of Choson Christian College, 1915-1919” at the conference of the Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul.
Nov. 10 lectured “Korean Gospels Crossed the Yalu River, 1874-1884” at Mogwon University, Daejeon
Nov. 2 lectured “Luther 500 and Korean Protestantism 130” at the New Wave Academy, Seoul
Oct. 10 presented a paper “The Introduction of Theological Liberalism and Historical Jesus Study in 1915 by Rev. Takahasi Takazo 高橋鷹藏 of the Japanese Congregation Church” at the Institute of the History of Christianity in Korea, Seoul
September 12 Climbed to the Commanding General’s Post 수어장대 of the Mt. Namsan Fortress, Seongnam
June 17-18. The main speaker at the 44th National Conference of Korean Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), Hilton Hotel, Washington DC Dulles Airport.
June 13, UCLA Humanities Graduation Ceremony
May 22 With Prof. Kim Dohyung of Yonsei University
2014
Oct. 24, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Oct. 22, Princeton Theological Seminary
Oct. 21. with Dr. Moffett, Princeton, NJ
June 14 UCLA Graduation, With Chair of ALC Depart. & Dean of College of Humanities
April 14 Lectured at K D.Min Program, Fuller Theological Seminary. “The Contextualization of Protestantism in Early Modern Korea: Its History and Legacy”
2013Nov. 15 a paper presented, at Reform 500, Gordon College, Boston. "The First Three Decades and the Recent Three Decades of Korean Protestantism"
Oct. 25 Im Conference, UCLA
Oct 17 World Christianity Forum at Boston University School of Theology, Boston. With Prof. Dana Robert, my teacher, and two classmates who became professors in the US.
October 15 Interview with the KoreaDaily on the book. September 3, Author’s copy of The Making of Korean Christianity received from Balyor University Press
June 24-29 Yale Divinity School Library Archives & 2013 Yale-Edinburgh Mission Studies Conference
March 23 AAS Annual Meeting, San Diego. Lunch with scholars of Christianities in East Asia
2012July 1, Sunday worship at Westminster Abbey, London, UK
June 30, at the Assembly Hall, New College, University of Edinburgh
June 29, John Knox statue, New College, Edinburgh, Scotland
June 4, Luther’s NT in 1522, Luther Museum, Luther-Wittenberg, Germany
June 2, Luther’s Room, Wartburg Castle, Germany
June 2, A side of the Luther Statue, Eisenach, Germany
Altmarkt und Kreuzkirche, Dresden, Germany( Before in 1945 & After in 2004)
Interview, Korea Daily, Los Angeles, May 8, 2012, page 23.
April, Bochum, Germany
April 5. Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
Interview. Newsletter of the Center for Global Christianity and Missions, Boston University School of Theology (Winter 2012)
2011Interview. Mokhoe wa Sinhak (Seoul: December 2011).
Nov. 25. Paper presented at the 126th Anniversary of Chejungwon, Yonsei University, Seoul
Nov. 24. Lecture at the 140th Anniversary of Birth of M. J. Edmunds, Ewha University, Seoul
Oct. 21 Im Conference, UCLA Center for Korean Studies
April 4 Symposium of the Korean Bible Society. at Youndong Presbyterian Church, Seoul, 100th Anniv. of the Publication of the Korean (Hangul) Bible
2010In front of the America Bible Society, New York, Nov. 12
September 29 With Dr. Samuel H. Moffett & Mrs. Eileen F. Moffett, Princeton
Dr. Moffett (1916-) is working on the biography of his father, Sept. 29.
Special Collections, Henry Luce III Library, Princeton T. Seminary, Sept. 27.
Methodist Historical Center, Drew University, Sept. 24
Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, NJ. September 20
Burke Library, Union Theological Seminary, NY. Sept. 17.
Yale Divinity School Library, CT. Sept. 15.
Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia. September 7
At the Tombstone of Dr. Eli B. Landis (1865-1898), Lancaster, PA. September 5
May 8, Los Angeles. “Shedding New Light on the Leaders of the Korean Independence Movement in the US,” Symposium. in commemoration of the Centennial of the KNA.
Celebration of the 125th anniversary of Horace G. Underwood’s arrival in Korea and the publication of the five volumes of “H. G. Underwood & Lillias H. Underwood Papers” (ed. by Oak Sung-Deuk Oak and Yi Mahn-yol) at Yonsei University, April 5. 2010.
2009K177 Students from Latin America, March 2009
2007Luce Conference, April 2007: Profs. Min, Hertig, and Oak
KOVISION (Korean Visiting Scholars Network) UCLA, April 2007
Dongsoon Im and Mija Im