Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Religion) and May 24, 1948 (Publisher's Letter), TIME told the story of Ye Yun-Ho, a young Korean seminarian who was sketching among a jumble of packing cases on Seoul's city dump when he discovered that there were homeless children living in them. Presbyterian Ye Yun-Ho moved in among the packing cases, began to organize his first parish among the swarms of ragged dead-end kids of Seoul...
...Houses & Long Hair. La Sung Duk is 59 years old and an elder in Pyongyang's West Gate Presbyterian Church. Elder La met his first Russian in September 1945. The Russian was a cheerful, blond young soldier, and he asked Elder La's help in haggling for an apple with a fruit vendor. Elder La tried to ask the soldier the meaning of the green hatbands worn by some of the Russian officers, but he couldn't seem to make the soldier understand his question...
...green hatbands was Park II Woo, a tall man who wore his hair long in the fashion that Koreans call a "high collar cut." Kim II Sung and Park II Woo lived in downtown Pyongyang for a while, but soon they moved up into Ocean Village, the old Presbyterian missionary compound. Here their American-style red brick houses were next door to the residence of General Terenty Shtykov, who called himself the Soviet ambassador but was, in fact, Russian governor of North Korea. This move did not escape the attention of Pyongyang's 50,000 Christians, but the other...
...first to go was Cha Choi II, an athletic coach at the Boys' Christian Academy. He was picked up by the green hatbands in the spring of 1946, and his neighbors never heard of him again. Next were Kim Wha Sik, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, Kim In Choon, president of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and Kang Yi Hong, secretary of the Pyongyang Y.M.C.A...
...prominent Christian, Kang Nyang Ook, was a "carrot" from the start. Kang, pastor of the High Place Presbyterian Church and an old teacher of Kim II Sung's, organized the Christian People's Association, preached regularly on the evils of U.S. imperialism and the blessings of Soviet democracy. He gathered quite a following, and continued to have one even after some of the "white ones" threw a grenade into his house, killing his eldest son and two visiting pastors...