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Korea: View of Pyongyang, including the Methodist church, early 20th century

Korea: View of Pyongyang, including the Methodist church, early 20th century

In this district, the Methodist Church had a boys’ and a girls’ high school, 26 primary schools for boys, 12 primary schools for girls, total enrollment of 2,200. There were also three kindergartens and a school for the deaf and blind.

Koreans gave more than two-thirds of the support needed for these primary schools. The city center had a population of about 60,000 in a metropolitan area of about 1,100,000.

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