• Women's Studies Review
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.3-29
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• 2019

In 1860 the missionary work of the great powers was placed in East Asia, centered on China, after Christianity was recognized in China. As missionary groups conducted missionary work and education, it was the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church(WFMS) that focused on women's education in particular. WFMS was organized in 1869 and later dispatched female missionary teachers to China, Japan, and the capital Tokyo to conduct women's education. In the mid-1880s, a Ewha School was built in Seoul by sending missionaries to form a network of women education in the three East Asian countries. The need for higher education gradually emerged as each local educational institution began with a small school curriculum and secondary education courses were arranged. Thanks to the efforts of local missionaries, including President Lulu E. Frey of the Ewha School, and the support of WFMS, the university was established in 1910. Unlike the two countries' educational institutions, Ewha School, the last established women's educational institution, was the first female institution located in the capital city of Seoul, a major advantage to the school's development since the 1910s. Above all, he started college education in 1910 and produced his first graduates in 1914 to promote growth. A total of 29 students graduated from universities and courses 11 times until 1925, when the school was developed into a specialized school. According to the education system in the 1920s, complete with the three semesters of spring, liberal arts education (English, science, mathematics, history, pedagogy, philosophy, English literature, pedagogy, psychology, etc.) was conducted without any special majors, and all but Chinese and Japanese were conducted in English. The March 1 Movement for the Promotion of National consciousness in Joseon, which was reduced to a colony of early graduates, and its activities are drawing keen attention, especially since the March 1 Independence Movement.