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Hyunsub shin(104842134)

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korean 172

14 otcober,2016

Missionaries unable to continue Ministry in Their Country of Service

Korean Women didn’t have power from the beginning. However, the role of Korean women has an important change. It means that these day women has strong power and they are important roles in society. Why did role of women changed in Korea? It can be find history of ealier christianity in korea. There were some people who made an effort to spread the gospel in Chosen eras. Kollumba Kan wansuk is one of them. In Chosen eras, the church faced great persecution and many tribulations because there were patriarchal confucianism. Gary Ledyard mention insight in to early Catholic Church and Kang’s background and achievement.

Kang was born in 1761 in Chungcheong Province , and she was an illegitimate yangban;

She was interested in Buddism ,but she lost interest after she hear about Catholicism from her husband’s relatives. Actually, there were patriarchal confucianism, so Chosen government persecuted Catholicism because it has difference religious value. The government killed people who believe Catholicism. Also, Korean women were not powerful citizen in society , but Kanwansuk helped people who were catholic in prison although she was not baptized. unfortunately, she was exposed to government and then she was imprisoned. She moved to seoul with her daughter, widower’s son and husband’s mother after she was released from prison. She gave shelter to Father Zhou for 6 years and was baptized from him, and she contined to help him and made an effort to propagate catholicism to ruined royal women and court women. In chosen eras, Kang is not usual chosen women because there were confucianism, so women didn't held poewer. However, she assumed great power in Korean Catholic world when her role expanded to that wolf women’s catchiest and church coordinator. Also, many catholics came to her house in order to make a community of believer. However, she was imprisoned again in 1801.Also, She did not say where Father Zhou is to government. The more amazing fact is that she propagate catholicism in prison although she suffered torture. According to the silk letter, there was no one like her who makes an effort for korean church , regardless of sex. In saying thins, the author mentions that Kang is great women in choson.

Consequently, roles of women in Korean are influenced by Kang’s work. The growth in membership and the grouth in spirituality, especially, for women can be attributed to Kang as well. These and many other works perpetuated by hang support Ledyard’s argument that Kang was indeed the oder of “an independent, self-directed Korean female” That, undoubtedly, was very new in chosen society, and Kang’s pioneering of the autonomous Korean female must be give its due.