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History 이수정: 언더우드는 왜 조선을 선교지로 택 했는 가?
2017.05.19 09:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTfZacwc-64
(이수정: 한국 기독교 선교의 개척자)
1843년 아편전쟁은 단순히 영국이 중국을 침략 했다기 보다는 중국 중심의
동북아 질서가 무너지고 구미 세력이 주도 하는 새 질서가 잡혀가기 시작하는
신호탄이라고 할수 있다. 10년 후에 페리 제독이 흑선을 이끌고 일본의 빗장을
연다. 그후 메이지 유신을 통해서 탈아시아에 성공 하여 서구 열강과 힘을 겨룰
수 있는 강력 한 국가가 된다. 불행하게도 조선은 일본이 반 강제로 문호를 개방
하게 하고 근대문명을 받아 드리게 된다. 기독교의 전파 또한 그 예외는 아니었
던 것 같다.
이수정는 1882년 임오군란 때 민비를 위기에서 벗어나게 한 공으로 일본 유학을
가게 된다. 원래는 농경기술을 배우려고 일본에 갔으나, 성경에 심취 되어
기독교 신자가 되었다. 일본대학에서 조선어를 가르치면서 성경를 조선말로
번역 하기도 했다. 성경 번역은 미국인 선교사의 도움으로 하게 되었고
자연히 영어도 배우게 되었다. 1883년12월31일, 한 미국 기독교 잡지에 조선에
기독교 선교를 할것을 호소하는 그의 편지가 실리게 되었다. 당시에
언더우드는 뉴저지 뉴브란스위크 신학대학 학생이었다. 그 편지를 본 그는
조선으로 가서 선교 활동을 할것을 결심 했다고 한다.
1885년2월에 언더우드와 아펜젤러는 일본 요코하마에 도착 했다. 이수정은
이곳에서 이들을 만나 약 2 개월 동안 조선의 풍습과 조선말을 가르 쳤다고 한다.
위 비데오는 한국 CBS 에서 방송 한 이수정에 대한 다큐멘타리 이다.
Comment 7
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Was the person one of the Underwoods who gave us ECFMG test at Yonsei University in 1964?
The examiner, whoever it was, used 100% English in explaining the test procedure.
Sitting at the exam table and listening to him, I thought he was damn arrogant in having done that.
We were being tested for medical knowledge, not English proficiency.
Sorry for being getting out of the tract from the main theme of this story
but, out of nowhere, this long-forgotten piece of unhappy memory came to me.
The "arrogance" of the missionaries onto the people of underdeveloped nations must have been very common.
I still wonder if the missions were out of their true conviction to help poor people
or just to satisfy their ego. Even today, Korean missionaries to poor countries seem to be very siimilar.
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http://m.blog.daum.net/susanhoa/5341525
I remember him too.
He was the grandson of the original Underwood.
who died in 1916 at the age of 57.
The name of the grandson was Horace Grant Underwood II.
He was the proctor of our ECFMG examination in October of 1964.
(Thank you, Dr. Ohn, for correcting my error. See below more about him)
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Rev Horace Grant Underwood
Birthdate: July 19, 1859 (57) Birthplace: London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom Death: Died October 12, 1916 in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States Place of Burial: Seoul, South Korea Immediate Family: Son of John E. Underwood and Elizabeth Grant Underwood
Husband of Dr Lillias Stirling Underwood
Father of Horace Horton Horton Underwood
Brother of John Thomas Underwood; Helen Mary Conrad; Mary Eastern or Easton Underwood; Hannah Eizabeth Grant Stephenson and Frederick Willis UnderwoodWhile working in Korea, he met and married a fellow missionary, Miss Lilias Horton, MD, who had been sent to Korea by the Presbyterian Mission Board following Queen Min's request for a female physician. He was accompanied by his new bride on his third missionary tour of Korea in 1889. They had one child, Horace H. Underwood, who became a professor at Yonhui College, and later the principal of the school.
(from Internet)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-MjoSoIsNY
(Horrace Grant Underwood II, Panmunjum Interpreter)
He must have been Horace Grant Underwood II who was an interpreter during Korean war armistice
negotiation. He is grandson of original Underwood. In the above video, he was called as Horrace E.
Underwood, but it was found to be wrong. Can you remember his face in the video?
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Horace Grant Underwood, II Birth: Oct. 11, 1917
Seoul
Seoul Special City, South KoreaDeath: Jan. 15, 2004
Seoul
Seoul Special City, South Korea
Educated at Hamilton College and New York University. In 1939, Underwood returned to Seoul and taught English at Chosen Christian College (Yonsei University). In July 1941, he married Joan Vida Davidson, the daughter of a British businessman.
They was interned by the Japanese in 1941 and repatriated to the United States in 1942, when he joined the U.S. Navy and served as a Korean and Japanese language officer in the Pacific.
At the end of WWII, he was assigned to the U.S. Military Government in Korea, and was instrumental in forming Seoul National University out of a multitude of of existing Japanese institutions. In 1947, he resigned his commission and returned to Yonsei University, where he served until the North Korean attack in June 1950. Underwood rejoined the U.S. Navy and served throughout the Korean War.
He served as a key interpretor in the Korean War armistice talks.
Together Horace and Joan were the parents of Horace H. Underwood, William D. Underwood, and Peter Alexander Underwood.
Family links:
Parents:
Horace Horton Underwood (1890 - 1951)
Ethel Van Wagoner Underwood (1888 - 1949)
Spouse:
Joan Vida Davidson Underwood (1915 - 1976)
Siblings:
Horace Grant Underwood (1917 - 2004)
James Horton Underwood (1919 - 2008)**
John Thomas Underwood (1919 - 1994)*
*Calculated relationship
**Half-siblingBurial:
Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery
Seoul
Seoul Special City, South Korea
Created by: Rebecca Ewing Peterson
Record added: Oct 26, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 79321810
Added by: Rebecca Ewing Peterson
Cemetery Photo
Added by: Chris Nelson
Photos may be scaled.
Click on image for full size.
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Thanks all !
In video, Horace E. (Grant?) Underwood II said he was born in Korea (not England).
He looked very friendly and nice even though I didn't feel like that in 1964.
Well... obviously I was in a stress then even though I was lucky enough to pass the exam.
There's no way I could have remembered his face then.
It was 53 years ago but 호랑이 담배피던 시절처럼 느껴집니다.
I can hardly believe how I ended up where and how I am now !!
무슨 "기구한" 운명의 장난이였나 합니다.
I guess it doesn't really matter now whether he was Horace E. or Horace G.
It will be just a forgotten chapter of our tumultuous past.
Thank you so much, Dr. Ohn, for putting this documentary on our page.
Feeling the love God has for Korea and her people made my tears come out
out of the long-dried out tear duct.
However, you and I know this documentary is only one of numerous miracles
HE has demonstrated in HIS mysterious ways in recent Korean history
which have been transforming our motherland to this date.
This reminds me of all the martyres and their stories the early Catholic Church
of Korea had to endure.