Seoul Foreigners' Cemetery Park | |
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Seoul Foreigners' Cemetery Park at Hapjeong-dong, Mapo-gu, is on the site of Yanghwajin Quarters, which defended the Yanghwajin Ferry during the Joseon Dynasty. It was created as a foreigners' cemetery in 1860.
There are about 570 graves here for foreign members from the press, education, and religious fields who contributed to Korea from the reign of King Gojong at the end of Joseon Dynasty. The important figures buried here include Ernest Thomas Bethell, who founded Daehan-Maeil-Shinbo; Henry Gerhard Appenzeller, who greatly contributed to the foundation of Baejae Hakdang (school); Douglas B. Avison, who was a founder of Severance Medical School; and Dr. Homer Bezaleel Hulbert, who was highly esteemed as a great benefactor of Korea. The figures buried here are mostly missionaries, so the Korean Christianity 100th Anniversary Promotion Committee built Mission Memorial Hall here in 1985 to revive their spirits and it is now used as a foreigners' church. Christian groups and social groups hold various memorial events in the hall every year. This area was a hard-fought field during the Korean War, so some gravestones still bear bullet marks. It is lush with over 100-year-old trees. With this exotic mood, movie people sometimes visit here to shoot the foreign-looking landscape. [Impressive Inscriptions at Seoul Foreigners' Cemetery Park] "I want to be buried in Korea instead of Westminster Temple" (H. B. Hulbert) "If I had a thousand lives to give, Korea should have them all" (R. R. Kendric) Hours: 09:00 ~ 18:00 Admission: Free Directions: Take subway line #2 to Hapjeong Station, exit #7, 10 minutes walking | |
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