Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery (Foreigners' Cemetery)

Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery is the resting place of missionaries who devoted themselves to this land as seeds of the gospel. It contains 417 missionaries from 15 countries, including South Africa, New Zealand, Denmark, Germany, and the United States. These missionaries dedicated their lives to the Korean people during the dark period of Japanese colonial rule, coming to share the light of the gospel in a country that was then little known to the world. As contributors to missionary work and Korean social welfare, they had a profound impact on the Korean people not only through social institutions such as the establishment of hospitals and schools, but also in the intangible spiritual realm, such as the abolition of the caste system and the custom of male dominance and female subordination. The seeds of the gospel sown through these missionaries have borne much fruit in the Korean church and society at large today. Representative missionaries include Bae Seol (William B. Scranton), Homer B. Hulbert, Horace G. Underwood, and Henry G. Appenzeller. Currently, the Korea Christian Centennial Memorial Church manages the site, and a church has been established at the cemetery memorial hall where about 200 foreigners worship every Sunday.