# Raising the Banner in Korea: An Early Bahá'í History

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> Tokyo, Japan, 1996
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> Approved by the National Spiritual Assembly
> of the Bahá'ís of Korea
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> © Copyright 1996 by Barbara R. Sims
> Digital text © 1999 by Barbara R. Sims and the Bahá'í Academics Resource Library
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>                        Contents
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>           Preface
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>           Introduction ....................................................... 1
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>      1.   The First Mention of the Bahá'í Faith in Korea ..................... 2
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>      2.   Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá to the Koreans .............................. 5
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>      3.   Letters from the Guardian in the Early 1950s ....................... 6
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>      4.   The Immediate Post-Korean War Period .............................. 12
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>      5.   The First Public Meeting in the Post-War Years, November, 1954 .... 14
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>      6.   1955 .............................................................. 17
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>      7.   The First Local Spiritual Assemblies in Korea, 1956 ............... 19
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>      8.   Korea Becomes a Part of the North East Asia Community, 1957 ....... 26
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>      9.   More About the Late 1950s ......................................... 31
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>      10.  The Early 1960s ................................................... 39
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>      11.  The First Annual Convention of the Bahá'ís of Korea, 1964 ......... 48
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>      12.  Later Years ....................................................... 51
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>           Afterword ......................................................... 61
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>           Sources ........................................................... 63
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> — *Raising the Banner in Korea: An Early Bahá'í History (Used by permission of the curator)*