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In 1903, the first scientist and educational missionary went from Michigan to Korea. In 1905, Arthur Becker, Methodist, and William Baird,
Presbyterian, combined efforts to start the first college in Korea:
Pyongyang ‘s Union Christian College (Soongsil) which was later re –
established in Seoul after the war. In 1914, a new college for all Korea was
planned by both missions and Becker took 20 of his advanced students to
Seoul to start Chosen Christian College, now Yonsei University . He and his wife, Louise, gave nearly a half century of their lives to bring science and music to the young men and women of Korea. Becker lived through the
Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese annexation of Korea, and the Mansei
Movement, as well as getting a Masters in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Physics
at the University of Michigan. This is his story.
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