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Title: Chang Sei Kim family papers
Date (inclusive): approximately 1920-1945
Collection Number: 2023C28
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box, 1 USB flash drive
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The Chang Sei Kim family papers (circa 1920-1945) document the life of Chang Sei Kim, a Korean doctor and independence movement
activist, and his family through copies of records from the National Archives, biographies, and copies of correspondence between
Chang Sei Kim and Captain Max Becker.
Creator:
Chang Sei Kim family
Creator:
Chang, Sei Kim, 1893-1934
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2023.
[Identification of item], Chang Sei Kim family papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Chang Sei Kim (1893-1934). Korean doctor, missionary and independence movement activist. After graduating from Severance Medical
College in 1916, Chang Sei Kim worked as a missionary in an Adventist hospital in Shanghai. The establishment of the Korean
Provisional Government led him to participate in the independence movement; focusing on educating nurses, he believed that
the health of Koreans would be a key factor for achieving independence and that improving nurse training would support this
effort. In the 1920s he left for the U.S. to conduct comprehensive research on medicine, and he received his doctorate in
Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in 1925, making him the first Korean doctor to recieve a degree from a foreign country.
He traveled through Europe, the Balkans, and Egypt, later becoming a professor at Severance Medical College where he completed
his own public health theory, "Reconstruction of the Korean People In Terms of Physical Constitution." He returned to the
U.S in 1930, continuing to engage in independence activism and public health initiatives until his death in 1934.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Public health
Physicians
Korea
Korea -- History -- Independence movement, 1919
Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945
Personal correspondence
Digital images