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ADDRESS CORRESPONDENCE TO.

A.P.O. NO. 59. SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA

OFFICIAL ADVISORS:

RADIO STATION, H L K U 1035 KILOCYCLES

Dear

Friends:

Things have been happening out here so rapidly the last few inonths that we just did
not take time out to tell you all about them#
up to date on the latest happenings in Korea*

We hope this letter will bring you

Of course! the biggest news was the takeover of the government by the military in May# We had been expecting something for the former government, which took over from Syngman Rhee a year agOt was having many difficulties and people were not sat isfied with its efforts to improve the situation here* But we did not expect the army to take over# They now charge that they were forced to do this because the government was proCommunist and corrupt* No one believes it was pro-Consnunist and no one doubts it was corrupt# In my opinion, it will take several generations before corruption in the government here is eliminated# It has just been the natural thing for too many years# We are now in our fourth year in Korea and we have seen four governmentsl This, of course, causes us problems in our dealings with the govern

ment, and foreigners deal with the government at frecjuent intervals# We are hopeful that they will clean up some of the corruption and iii5)rove the economic situation of
the people# One thing they have done is to practically eliminate the in^porting and sale of foreign goods and this is causing us some difficulty in the way of food stuffs# We are hopeful that something will be worked out as a diet of fish and rice
could get awfully monotonous for us I

Concerning our work, there has been good news and bad news# The bad news is that we
had to fire two of our staff, Mr# Kb and preacher Rhee# This was a great disapp ointment to us# Itlr# Kb had worked for us for three years and we had depended on him for many things* Por the most part his work had been very good but in the past year we hed numerous difficulties with him and finally found that his character was such

that we could no longer ejiiploy him# Similar problems, and discovery of similar character, caused the same action regarding the preacher# This, of course, left us in a difficult position for a few weeks, but not long. We had been worried because attendance had dropped at church recently# After discharging these men we found
they were a good part of the reason for the slump# We feel that the whole situation is much better now# We re-enployed a former worker, part-time, life# Kim, whom we had

let go for financial reasons in January, and we have employed a new man, Vtc* Lee#
He comes to us with the best of recommendetions, is a good Christian, and is 35 years old, a little older than our previous workers, and this helps out here where

age is respected so much#

And, of course. Miss Suh, continues with her good work#

It was held at Ilkwang, a beach resort about an

The most recent event of our work was the canp which we held August 1-4 for the mem?bers of our student Bible clubs#

hour and a half by train from Pusan# There were 75 high school and college students in attendance and 10 faculty members# All of the students attending were members of
the five student Bible clubs which meet weekly in our chapel# There are I30 stud

ents enrolled in this program# Miss Suh directs all their activities and planned and directed the caiup program* We were especially pleased that the planning and direction was by the Kbrean staff with very little assistance from us. Anong the
Broadcasting the Gospel Ovsr HLKU, Pusan, Roraa fl035 Kilocyslasl. Korea's First Commercial Radio Station.

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highlights of the can were the Wednesday evening service in which we were joined
by the members of the village church and at which Harold Taylor preached, a camp-

fire service on Thursday night and the baptismal service on Friday afternoon. The faculty for the csssp were: Harold Taylor, of Korean Christian lilission in Seoulj Dr Han, president of Yonsei College, and his wife} Mr* Choo, principal of Pusan High
School; Preacher Lim of the Christian radio station HIKP in Pusan; Marge and Bert,

and KBM staff members* We especially appreciated Harold's taking time out of a busy schedule to spend the week with us. The camp facilities consisted of two buildings used for dormitories, which we rented from the Ifethodist Conference, and the local Methodist church building which was used for our meetings. Ilkwang is a popular sunmer resort with a fine beach, and the young people greatly enjoyed the swiianing There were 11 who were baptized at the close of canjj. None of them, as well as practically all the canpers, had ever seen any one baptized before, so they were duly hesitant, h good Christian testimony was given to a large crowd at the beach
by the baptismal service* We have mentioned before that the economic situation is very bad in I&rea* Most of the students' families have all thoy can do to pay the

school fees, without any extras, (all education above primary schools is what we would term private schools*) Miss Suh insisted that each student pay a part of his

expenses and bring some rice*

The car^) actually cost the mission about $250, part

We are planning

of which went for oguipmont wo will not have to buy another yoar* to make this a regular part of our program*
believe it will increase when the vacation season is over*

Although church attendance had fallen off, it is beginning to pick up again and we
Our Sunday School has

been booming, several Sundays recently wo have had I50 children, all below the age of 12, and wo are averaging between 125 150* We have some now plans for our Sunday School and will be telling you more about that in our next letter* Our corr espondence Bible study has slowed down right now due to vacation and the fact that we have ru3t had time to promote it properly* We are off tho air for the summer with our radio program but will resume our broadcasting in October* We have found that not so many people listen during tho summer and by going off the air for a short period wo have time to take care of some other activities* Everywhere we go we meet people who listen to our program regularly*
We have indicated before that we just do not have enough hours in the day to take care of all the activities properly* V/e have decided that when we return from fur

lough we will specialize in working with the student Bible clubs and the Sunday School, possibly preparing materials which can be used in other areas* This means someone will bo needed to take care of the radio work, and someone to take care of the church, Bible classes, and general evangelism* If any one is interested please get in touch with us as soon as possible and we'll send more information*
By cutting expenses to the bare minimum, drawing about half of our salary, and using every means of economy we are gredually reducing our back debt as well as paying
current e^enses* Our finances are still precarious and we wonder from month to month whether or not we can meet our current bills* The youth canp put a dent in

our budget at present and we could certainly use extra gifts to pay for that* Wo do appreciate all those who have so regularly and faithfully helped with the finances
of this work*

There are many more things we would like to tell you but this letter is long now so we will save than for the next letter which we will try to send within the next six weeks. Please share this letter and picture with those who are interested in your
church* Remember to pray for us daily*
Faithfully yours.

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