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The purpose of this article is to examine how the founding spirit and philosophy of Yonsei University has been reflected and applied to the Charter of the Incorporation of the university. To begin with, the Charter of Chosen Christian College that was the predecessor of Yonsei University played an inevitable role in forming its identity and posing its educational direction. Under the occupation of Japanese imperial colony, missionaries such as H.G. Underwood and O.R. Avison tried to keep them to achieve their Christian missionary goal, and succeeded in making them as unamendable provisions of the university. Their efforts resulted in the Charter of the Incorporation of the university, which could not be amended, and they have been firmly inherited until now. Concretely, this article first investigates what problems the founders had, how they overcame the problems, how they applied their missionary aim to the Charter of the Incorporation, and what the meaning and characteristics of them were. Despite the policy of Japanese government that separated religion from education, Underwood, Avison and other missionaries sought to place the chapel and the Bible education on the curriculum of the university, and finally achieved it with the help of the government general officials. Throughout lots of discussions, moreover, they succeeded in reflecting upon the view of the Board of Foreign Missions and the Korea mission of PCUSA within the Charters of which content asserted that all the members of the university should be Christians who believed in the Bible, and that the key provisions could not be amended before the dissolution of the university corporation according to Underwood’s claim. Furthermore, it is discovered in this article that the Charter of the Incorporation of Meijigakuin College, which were made ten years earlier and referred to those of Chosen Christian College, were constituted of more strong contents that maintained Christian identity. These contents of Meijigakuin Charter, which overcame the policy of the Japanese government separating religion and education, were conveyed by Toru Watanabe who was the judge participating in creating the Charter of both schools into those of Chosen Christian College. It is also discovered that the Charter of the Incorporation of Doshisha University, which was the first Christian school in Japan, first asserted that the contents regarding Christian identity could not be amended, and later became the base of the Charter of Christian schools in both Japan and Korea. Through this research, the agonies and wisdom of the founders, who sought to maintain and inherit Christian identity, can be uncovered, and more importantly, the origin and meaning of the unamendable contents of the Charter of Yonsei University can be disclosed. This article leaves the research regarding the Charter of Doshisha University, which were the first Charter of Christian university, as the next academic task.
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Chosen Christian College, Religious Education, Christian Identity, Meijigakuin Charter, Unamendable Provisions
