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The American who opened women's higher education in Korea

Lulu E. Frey served in Korea for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church beginning in 1893. She became a teacher and later principal at Ewha, Korea's first girls' school. There, Christian principles were taught along with academic subjects, hygiene, and the sanctity of the woman-centered domestic sphere. The precepts of evangelical Christianity merged with seemingly liberating ideals of modernity. In 1910, the year Japan officially annexed Korea, Frey established Ewha's college program. Many of the young women who studied at Ewha became the first female teachers, nurses, and doctors in Korea and joined a rising cohort of "New Women" across East Asia.

In Pioneer of Korean Female Education, Julie Choi and Duk-Ae Chung present Frey's previously unpublished letters. These documents offer intimate insight into the work of running, expanding, and raising funds for a school during the political turmoil and wars that marked the end of the Joseon Dynasty, the short-lived Korean Empire, and the first decade of Japanese occupation.

A joint publication from the University of South Carolina Press and the National Taiwan University Press.

University of South Carolina Press

East-West Encounters in Literature and Cultural Studies

Pioneer of Korean Female Education: Missionary Lulu E. Frey's Letters from Ewha Haktang, 1893–1918

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