David Sidwell with Kimsi and Chung-han, South Korea, ca. 1956

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Title David Sidwell with Kimsi and Chung-han, South Korea, ca. 1956

Description A photograph of the Sidwell's baby, David Sidwell, born in 1956, along with Kimsi and Chung-han in front of their house. Donna Rae Sidwell, daughter of George and Edna Rae Sidwell, described this particular relationship , "Many missionaries employed Korean helpers in their homes both out of necessity and to help struggling Korean Christians. Kimsi was a second mother throughout our time in Korea. She had been imprisoned and tortured on suspicion of coercion with North Korea after her husband disappeared during the war. Chung-han was a younger brother of Mr. Chae, my father’s secretary. We employed a number of his family members over the years. They were a large family with few resources. Our help allowed multiple children to get an education and succeed in life. " Daegeon, South Korea, ca. 1956.

Creator Sidwell, Edna Rae (creator), Sidwell, George, 1924 (creator)

Contributor Missionary Slide Collection, 1955-1967 provided by George and Edna Rae Sidwell. (provenance)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1956

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Daejeon (city or populated place), South Korea (countries)

Temporal Subject 1956

Type images

Format 1 photograph: color (format), image/jpeg (imt), photographs (aat)

Source Peace Corps Korea Archive (collection), Peace Corps Korea: Photographs and works of art (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Repository Email joykim@usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries. East Asian Library. Korean Heritage Library

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library 206, 3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, California, 90089-1975

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Access Conditions There are no physical artifacts associated with this collection. All requests for permission to publish or quote from the collection must be submitted in writing to East Asian Library. Phone (213...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/pck-c86-14736

Identifier pck-i3813.JPG (filename), pck-c86-14736 (legacy record id), George and Edna Rae Sidwell missionary slide collection, 1955-1967 (series)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14736

Unique identifier UC11858816

Legacy Identifier pck-i3813.JPG

Type Image

Resolution 4.9 in × 3.4 in at 300dpi
12.5 cm × 8.6 cm at 300dpi

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Title Peace Corps Korea: Photographs and works of art

Description Between 1966 and 1981, more than two thousand Americans served in Korea as Peace Corps Volunteers, working as teachers, health workers, engineers, agricultural advisers, etc. Living in rural and urban communities across the country, they learned the Korean language and participated in Korean life on a broader and deeper level than any other group of Americans before or since have been able to do.

Once returned to their homes after their service, they formed an alumni group called Friends of Korea to continue their friendships with Korea and one another. Many went on to build careers as Korea experts as diplomats, educators, scholars, policy makers, consultants, etc. To this day many of the returned volunteers actively work to raise awareness of Korean issues and perspectives in America.

The many materials the Peace Corps Korea Volunteers brought back from Korea -- photographs, diaries, correspondence, audio-visual recordings, etc. -- help to document the critical fifteen-year period in Korean history that laid the foundations of a modern economy and a flourishing democracy.

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