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The Korean Church engaged the ministry in Korea peninsular when Korea met a dynamic period in national history in the late of Choseon Dynasty. Choseon Dynasty, at that time, was in crisis because of the corrupted officials forcing the nation to be straitened inside the nation, and the hegemony triggering a scramble among China, Japan, and Western countries outside the nation. In this situation, Christianity introduced gospel with modern education, medical systems, and Western mechanical skills to Korean people in order to renew them for national regeneration. From these activities, Korean people began to understanding Christianity as a religion to change their national destiny. Meanwhile, insecure situations in Korea peninsular, such as Sino-Japanese war and Russia-Japanese war, helped people accept Christian faith positively. During unstable circumstances, the great revival movement was emerged in WonSan city as the need of national revolution. The great revival movement in WonSan has been approved as a spiritual revival because it was considered as an absolute national repentance movement. The spiritual revolution has been associated with the revolution of life as well. For instance, there were idolatry demolition, no alcoholism and smoking, and no gambling campaigns as nation's renewal movements. Therefore, Christianity in Korea developed its national leadership indicating the nation's destiny. Accordingly the great revival movement has tried to solve the problems of Korean church's status and became independent and involved in nation's broader issues. Especially, the Korean church antagonized Japanese persecution as counterforce. The great revival movement was not to extend church congregations and a small town's repentance movement. It was nation's spiritual revival movement to renew Korean people for constructing a new national spirituality.
