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 holds 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 not only on social institutions such as the establishment of hospitals and schools but also on the intangible spiritual realm, including the abolition of class distinctions 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 as a whole today. Representative missionaries include Bae Seol, Homer B. Hulbert, Horace G. Underwood, and Henry G. Appenzeller. The cemetery is currently managed by the Korean Christian Centennial Memorial Church, and a church has been established in the cemetery memorial hall where about 200 foreigners worship every Sunday.