HYMN OF DEATH – Shim-deok’s real story

“The Three Sisters of PyongYang” by Laura Shin
https://narratively.com/the-three-sisters-of-pyongyang/

Thanks, @shach, for posting it in ep. 3-4 recap thread!

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    Thank you! @pakalanapikake that was an excellent read, and a great shout-out for Ehwa University

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      @beantown,
      It’s all thanks to @shach for posting the link in the recap. I agree. It is a fascinating article. And as “uppity” as the women of the family were, there were equally open-minded men who agreed with and supported them. When you get right down to it, Christianity was a disruptive force in Korean society when it came to elevating the status of women. I posted a link to an article on American Presbyterian missionaries in Joseon that spells out the Ohio connection that led to Laura Shin’s well-educated ancestresses.

      What leaped out as I read it: the statement that back in the old days, women only had family names. No one bothered to give them personal names. Who needs a given name when everyone is going to address you as “So-and-so’s wife” and then “So-and-so’s mother.” /s

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    Here’s the Ohio connection that Laura Shin mentioned in her family saga:

    A history of Presbyterian mission in Korea
    https://pres-outlook.org/2017/07/history-presbyterian-mission-korea/

    Horace Allen, a medical doctor from Ohio, was the first U.S. Presbyterian missionary to arrive in Korea. The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. initially assigned Allen and his wife, Frances, to China in 1883. But as attention turned to Korea, Allen was able to use his medical credentials to secure appointment as a doctor to the foreigners staffing the new legations in Seoul. At the time, existing treaties did not sanction mission work in the country. Allen arrived in September 1884 officially as a medical doctor, not a missionary.

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