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KOREA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

An Introduction

We have a world to win and we are not winning it. Korc;!

Christian College was founded in order to help in the tar^k

of proclaiming tlie risen Christ to thr; world. As a "younger

church" we have much that needs to be done. We invite

our Christian brothers in the United States to help us, ju3t jis we shall try to help them.

KOREA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

PLANNING ASSOCIATION

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This brochure presents only one aspect of church life in

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this "good news" with you from time to time In a news tell you all that you might like to know about the college, but further and more specific information may be obtained at any time by writing our American Director of Informa
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Our Korea address Is:

Korea Christian College

Theology Institute International P. 0. Box 1728

Seoul, Korea

Our forwarding agent is the:

Webber St. Church of Christ
Webber at Elm St.

Urbana, Illinois

We wish to thank an American friend who made the printing of this brochure possible.

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What kind of school is Korea Christian College?

Until June, 1965, the woi^ was supported solely by Korean churches and indi
viduals. In this sense, tlie college is "indigenous" as it is both supported and con

trolled by the Korean churches. This has meant a sacrifice on the jtart of Korean
At tiie present time it is much like an American Bible college, although placing
somewhat more emphasis on the liberal arts. Eventually the school will have a multiple program. There will be a five year coiirsc of .study. The first two years will be devoted to a broad education, with required courses in Biblical subjects. The next three years will comprise a professional progiam. The first professional program w'ill be in ministerial education, but there will also be professional train
Christians but is a harbinger of things to come, for Koreans are now realizing that they too must share in the total task of the universal church.

ing of at least two typesindustrial and agricultural. Those involved in pro fessional training other than for the ministry will be e::pected to spend the equi
valent of a year in theological training.

What is the role of American Christians?

How is the school governed?

The scventj"" supporting churches have formed the Korea Christian College Planning Association. The members of the Association have elected an eighteen member standing committee to represent them.

us a college. Korea Christian Korean churches, and if neces We would like to be supported that arc not in your geographi cal area. With your help the ccjllege can e.xpand at a much faster rate and con sequently speed the evangelization of Korea. It is our hope that Korean churches can continue to provide the bulk of support for the college, just as American con gregations usually provide the basic financial assistance for local educational in
stitutions.

We are not askitig American chinxhes to buy College came into being through the work of the sary, we will continue to provide its sole support. for the same reason you assisi colleges in America

What is the desirability of this kind of education?

If the Korean church is to grow as it should, the task must be accomplished by

chose earning their living in "secular" occupations. We hope to produce two kinds of minister^:. One is able to preach because he supports himself in a secular oc cupation. The other kind makes his particular vocation a ministry.

Why start another college?

There are two basic approaches to education in Korea. Some schools concern themselves only with providing an excellent education, others are interested only in imparting Biblical knowledge. The first kind of schcol, often church supported, offers little or no training in Biblical subjects or in Christian living. The siecond kind of school remedies this deficit, but offers their graduates only the possibility of a professional ministry. Moreover, this kind of school is rarely accredited.

Why the need for accreditation ?

The only official recognition oi a school comes from the Korean Ministry of
Education' There arc no other accrediting bodies, k is illegal to use the term

"College" without such recognition. In other word:;, without accreditation, a school has no legal existence. Students from non-accred'ted schools may be drafted at any time, even in the middle of a semester. Nor may they be Chaplains. Koreans have long had a high regard for education. A recognized education is a necessity if we are to even approach many levels of Korean society. Accredi
tation is not merely desirable, it is an absolute necessity.

"Space mjy be small, time may be short,

For there is work to be done in the vineyard.

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What is Korea Christian College?

Korea Christian College is an institution of higher learning founded in 1964 by the Christian Churciies of Korea. Its major purpose is to provide thfe kind and quality of education needed and desired by Korean Christians.

Is the College now in operation?

It opened in March, 1965, with seven faculty members teaching a total of fiftyfive students.

"We have come, have comeWoe, woe to us. We havfr come to cultivate wisdom." Ode to Yangji

How soon is accreditatio expected?

The earliest possible date is 1968, so we have made 1968 our target date. Much will depend on the ilegree )f support we receive.

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What are the requirements for accreditation?

Some of the requirement;

I. The President of the must be Korean citize

of Korean law are:

College and the President of the Board of Trustees

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2. There must be at least eight fully qualified faculty members, holding gradleaching fields. uate degrees in their t 3. The library must cont in from 15,000 to 20,000 volumes. 4. The annual support of the college must be guaranteed through either endov/ment or pledged suppc rt. V Adequate collcge groi nds must exist to provide proper campus space and
athletic facilities.

6. Building space is dete: mined

"To study, to sleep, perhaps to dretm."

bv enrollment.

Miscellanea

The Administration
Slides of the college and a descriptive tape are available
from the American Director of Information.

H'lvamvon {Restoration), a Christian magazine with over

5,0000 subscribers, is now published by the Korea Christian College Planning Association. Yoon-Kwan Chae remains
the editor.

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Sung-Man Chang, of the standing committee, is Presi

dent of the Christian \'ocational School in Pusan.

The goat farm pictured below is providing a source of in come to the college and also provides some of our students

The first all-school picnic

Student Life: Extracts from a Diary

Yoon-Kwan Chae, Acting President of the College

The Standing Committee

Jaikwan Ahn

American Advisory Council

Don DeWelt

"A ringing bell, waking everybody up, a call for a devo tional moment. . . . My watch is pointing at five o'clock. I must get up. I walked into chapel at six o'clock. There ii Brother Chun, half knelt, earnestly praying. Breakfast

was good. A plateful of steaming hot rice and a bowl of bean sprout soup. . . . The windows of our classroom are
small so we are not distracted by

Yoon-Kwan Chae

W. L. Jessup
Bill Junkins John R. Pierce Ira Read

Acting President of the College Sung-Man Chang Choong-Yon Cho Soongook Choi
President of the

the enticing scene of spring in Seoul.

Prof. Ch^e had a great lecture today. . . .,;'lTearned much in Soci-

ology.

It^^S' amazing how little I

Planning Association
Yo-Han Choi

know about.-the structure of the so-

ciety in which I have lived for

There are about 2,000 students in a coi i-espondcnce school founded by Yoon-Kwan Chae and now operated by the Planning Association.

Jong-Man Ee Myung-Jin Im Byung-Chon Kang Hyun-Sook Kim

Jin-Moon Kim

twenty years. I spent the afternoon

in the library, not many books but

more are coming. .. . Eleven o'clock, I am tired ... it was a full day and I am a little closer to my Lord.'"

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Secretary of the Plarming Association Kyu-Sang Kim

Tae-Soo Kim

Jong-Man Ee, also of the standng committee, directs the orphanage at Inchon, the largest Christian orphanage in
Korea.

Kwang-So Koo General Secretary of the Planning Association Hyun-Pal Oh Yung-Jin Shim Soo-Kyung Sung Hwae-Moon Yang

The svmbol of the College (also of Hzvanzvon) utilizes Oriental imagery to symbolize Christian ideas. In the Orient
the circle stands for perfection.
Jin-Moon Kim

I'huSj one circle represents

the perfection and unity of Cjod, the second designates the

wholeness that man strives for, while the arrow demonstrates
Dean of the College our continual forward movement.
Un-Shik Moon. A Buddhist monk for

more than ten years, now preparing to preach to Buddhists.

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REPORTS-PLANS INTERPRETATIONS

KOREA CHRISTIAN COLLEG?)

PLANNING ASSOCIATION

Nov. 20, I965 Soongook Choi

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

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Korea Christian College: Theology Institute a. 7 faculty mejr)ers: 2 full time, 5 part-tinie instructors. b. 7A students at the opening 0? the second semester of the college on Sep. 7# 1965. Cr TS-!o rented buildings by Junse. d. A goat-farm with 10 goats provides part-time workds for students, and also
sc.TiG income for the college,

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A librai-y ^vith appro:^ately i,,200 volumes for Theology Institure is in conti

nuous program to increaoi the number and quality of the books.

5 students cxe present candidates, for graduation at December, 1965.

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Hv/an\von (Restoration), published raont^y.

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Approx. 3^000 subscribers.

Youth Conferences. Ou- first attempt during August, 1965 was successful vdth about 130 High Schoolers and early College'a^e:;young people attending.
New Church Evangelism. 4 ccn^re^atj.oris wpre started during the period of March-

August of 1965.
baptisms.

The studen"^s during thGii' dummer evangelism report about 50

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Enphabic appeal for the un:lty of the Church is-, causing renewed atmos

phere in many communities.

5. Correspondence School of Theol.dgj'-. Currently 2,^00 students.

PROJECTSD-PHBSEHT NEEDS OF THE KOREA CHRISTI.^^'COLI^GE.

1. V/e need anprox. per month, = in addition, to what is being raised in Korea. Korean Christian chiorches and individuals raised s>3jOPO to rent the buildings

and continue to support the college with approx. C^300 monthly.

Vath the growing

student body and e:<panding programs and the eventual need to obtain a permanent home of the college v/e need all the support you can^help. , For more information, write to Dr. Ira B, Read, Director of Information, Box 885, Sewanee, Tennessee

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We need at least 3 more, each amounting (;'50 ppr year from individuals or churches.

37375. Annual Scholarship Funds.

' Vfe have currently 2 academic excellence scholarships#

3* We need 5^000,000 won (f?20,0C0) to obt^n a permanent home for the Theology Institute and the College centers in Seou]),. A$ the student is growing, and
is expected to grow far more than it is now, tfiis need is becoming increasingly
urgent.
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KOREA Cimsnim C0IXEG5 PLANNING ASSOCIATION

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Organized on August 26, 1964, at the gathering of the ministers, elders, and other

leaders of the Cl-iristian churches in Kc^roa. ^Membership278 at present.

become candidates for the offices.

Members

pay dues, elect officers for the Planning Association and its committees, and
2. Purpose: In order to found and support,a Christian Institution to educate and

provide resources for the evangelistic, ministry of the Christian churches in

Korea.

This mirdstiy is to be ^oth faithful to the gospel mandate and the need

in the Korean situations, ministry in demographic and occupational phases. "God wants you to go, go and live with the people, live with the gospel,"

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Supported and were enthusiastically participated by a large number of Christians, Christian Churches in Korea who through this experience intends to and are learning
a responsible life of the Church fulfilling the love of Christ and its mission in a field, Korea, granted for their proclamation endeavor.

PROJECTED PLANS

1.

Expansion of the Theology'- Institute.

At present, 74 students.

Opened on March, 1965, with 55 students.

Accredited and chartered by the Special City of

This institute aims

Seoul on September, 1965

2. Establishment of the Agricultural-Animal Science Institute.

aims to send workers into the agronomous re^ons which conprise 75 % of the
entire Korea population. Possession of a goat farm is toward its preparation. Plans for experiment farms are in progress.

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Industrial-Techonological Institute is also planned. This institute aims to send workers to the new, e^^anding industrial communities. Arrangements for field.education connections are in the process of making.

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Educational Department. Primarily to educate ItLndergarten teachers for church related kindergartens, and then also, to participate in evangelism and establ ishment of new Christian congregations in un-churched areas. This is a departnent primarily for women students who wishes vocations in relation to our

church and evangelistic programs.

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Accreditation of the Korea Christian College a. It is now chartered and accredited by the Special City of Seoul. b. It will be submitted to the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea, by 1968 or 1969. c. Accreditation will not only challenge the existence of the college itself to be worthy of an higher educational institution, but it will provide a proper qualification to our graduates to make approaches to ordinary works and ordinary people with the gospel. d. It will allow the name, Korea Christian College, lawful. For any institution calling itself a college, seminary, or any such, without proper authority is
illegal under Korean law.

FOR INFORMATIONS AMD CORRESPONDENCE

a. b.

Dr. Ira B. Read, Director of Information, Box 885, Sewanee, Tennessee 37375 Mr. Yoon Kwon Chae, Acting-President, Korea Christiaui College: Theology
Institute, I. P. 0. Box 1728, Seoul, Korea

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lBr Jaikwan Ahn, Box 178, Lincoln, Illinois 62656

Mr. Soongook Choi, 1108 E, 2U12 Pierce Ave., Nashville, Tennessee 37212