Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the 8th president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.
The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is a consortium of eight private independent American theological schools and eleven centers and affiliates. Seven of the theological schools are located in Berkeley,California. The GTU was founded in 1962 and their students can take courses at the University of California,Berkeley. Additionally,some of the GTU consortial schools are part of other California universities such as Santa Clara University and California Lutheran University. Most of the GTU consortial schools are located in the Berkeley area with the majority north of the campus in a neighborhood known as "Holy Hill" due to the cluster of GTU seminaries and centers located there.
Ewha Womans University is a private women's research university in Seoul,South Korea. It was originally founded as Ewha Haktang on May 31,1886,by a missionary Mary F. Scranton. Currently,Ewha Womans University is one of the world's largest female educational institutes and one of the most prestigious universities in South Korea. Ewha Womans University has produced numerous South Korean women leaders,including politicians,CEOs,and legal professionals.
Diogenes Allen was an American philosopher and theologian who served as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church,which he served from 1958. He died in Newtown,Bucks County,Pennsylvania.
Han Myeong-sook is a South Korean politician who served as the prime minister of South Korea from April 2006 to March 2007. She is South Korea's first female prime minister. She was from the United New Democratic Party (UNDP) as a member of the Korean National Assembly (representative) for Ilsan-gab,and is a graduate of Ewha Womans University in Seoul with a degree in French literature. She resigned as prime minister on March 7,2007,and declared her presidential candidacy. But she did not succeed in the nominations. In 2008 she ran for parliament,but was not elected. However,in January 2012 she was elected leader of the main oppositional Democratic United Party (DUP) before the April legislative elections and became a member of parliament. But the liberals did not manage to defeat the ruling Saenuri Party and Han stepped down as party leader in April 2012. In August 2015,Han was convicted of receiving illegal donations and sentenced to two years in prison. Han has maintained her innocence. In 2021,she was granted special amnesty by the government and her constitutional rights were restored.
Chang Myon was a South Korean statesman,educator,diplomat,journalist and social activist as well as a Roman Catholic youth activist. He was the only prime minister of the parliamentary Second Republic. In addition,during the First Republic he was the fourth and last vice president of South Korea. His art name was Unseok (운석). His English name was John Chang Myon.
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 18 December 1997. The result was a victory for opposition candidate Kim Dae-jung,who won with 40.3 percent of the vote. When he took office in 1998,it marked the first time in Korean history that the ruling party peacefully transferred power to the opposition party.
Lynda Serene Jones is an American Protestant theologian. She is the president and Johnston Family Professor for Religion and Democracy at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. She was formerly the Titus Street Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and chair of gender,woman,and sexuality studies at Yale University.
Yi Yun-young was an independence activist,educator,and Methodist minister during the Japanese occupation of Korea. His family clan originated in Danyang,and he was from Yongbyon in Pyonganbuk-do. His art name was Baeksa. During the March 1st Independence Movement,he was arrested for holding a lecture declaring independence and protesting against the Japanese occupation. In 1940,his pastoral qualifications were suspended because he opposed the unification of the churches in Korea and Japan and refused to adapt Sōshi-kaimei. After the Liberation,he participated with Cho Man-sik in the Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence,founded the Korean Democratic Party,and was active as the party's vice leader. After his escape to the South,he was recommended as acting prime minister. After the establishment of Korea's government,he was named to be the first prime minister,but he was defeated because of the rejection of his confirmation by the Korea Democratic Party. After that,he was named to be the prime minister three more times,but each time he was rejected. Being one of Syngman Rhee's closest allies,he served as Minister without Portfolio and Minister of Social Affairs during the First Republic. He ran for vice president representing the anti-Lee Ki-poong faction but was defeated. After the May 16th Coup,he was Chairman of the Committee for Struggle against the prolongation of Military Government and executive member of the People's Party. He was an aide of Cho Man-sik,then after he defected to the South,he worked as an aide to Syngman Rhee.
Chang Dae-whan is a South Korean businessman. He is best known as the president of the Maeil Business Newspaper,South Korea's main business daily. He is the founder of the World Knowledge Forum. The World Knowledge Forum is the largest forum of its kind in Asia. He also served a brief stint as South Korea's acting prime minister in August 2002 under president Kim Dae-jung,but the National Assembly voted not to confirm him.
Events from the year 2002 in South Korea.
M. Craig Barnes is an American Presbyterian minister and professor who served as president of Princeton Theological Seminary.
Lee Hee-ho,sometimes spelled as Lee Hui-ho,,was a South Korean women's rights activist,peace advocate and former First Lady of South Korea during the presidency of her husband Kim Dae-jung from 1998 to 2003.
Ewha Girls' High School is a private girls high school located in Jeong-dong,Jung District,Seoul,South Korea. Although managed by the same foundation,it is not to be confused with the coeducational Ewha Womans University High School,which is located near Ewha Woman's University in Seodaemun District and functions as the demonstration school attached to the university's College of Education.
Kim Suk-soo is a South Korean politician and attorney-at-law who served as prime minister of South Korea from 2002 to 2003 under president Kim Dae-jung.
Emilie Maureen Townes is an American Christian social ethicist and theologian. She was Dean,E. Rhodes,and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Townes was the first African-American woman to be elected president of the American Academy of Religion in 2008. She also served as the president of the Society for the Study of Black Religion from 2012–2016.
Yung-Han Kim is a South Korean theologian and ordained minister. He served for 34 years as professor of systematic theology and Christian Philosophy at Soongsil University.
Sebastian Chang Hwan Kim is a Korean theologian specialized in public theology and Korean Christianity. He is currently Professor of Theology and Public Life and assistant provost for the Korean Studies Center at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Kim Myung-hyuk was a South Korean Presbyterian pastor and academic. He served as a senior pastor for Kangbyun Church and the chairman of the Korea Evangelical Fellowship (KEF).
