A wonderful and very emotional day.

Rev. Kim

Our first day was wonderful and full!!!  We walked 12,500 steps and many of those were steps or a climb up one of the many hills on Ewah campus.  Today the steps were less ... Only about 4,800, however the content was heavy, enlightening, and spiritually lifting.  We began the day with some powerful and passionate history of Korean Methodist women from the late 1800's and on who paved the way for Korean women to be some of the most educated women in the world.  Rev. Heasun Kim has written and edited writings for a book for the KUMC on the subject of Korean women's role in the church.  

Our team with Dr. David Suh and Rev. Heasun Kim on the walkway for the new underground building on the campus. 

Another highlight for us on a subject that most of us were unaware of was the human rights issues relating to the comfort women of Korea during WWII.  It is very difficult to translate feelings and our experiences of the day.  Korean women have worked tirelessly to bring the human rights issues to the forefront for years.  They have held a protest in front of the Japanese embassy every Wednesday for 20 years.  We will be participating this protest on Wednesday, September 11.  

Two of our women have spent time working to get US legislation passed which asked our government to take the human rights issue of the treatment and use of comfort women to the Japanese government.  This has been passed but still no apologies from Japanese government for the crimes against women. 

Helen and Karen