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MONUMENT (IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRDOM OF ELDER KWAN-JOON PARK) The late Kwan-Joon Park, who is called an Elijah of Korea or a Daniel of modern times, had fought and died as a martyr for his faith in Christ and for the love of his country, Korea, opposing the Japanese colonial rule during the Second World War, when Korea was occupied by the Japanese imperialists. On Mar. 24, 1939, the elder Park went to Japan to protest against inhuman colonial policies of Japan. He walked into the 74th Imperial Diet of Japan with his only son, Young-Chang Park, and their friend, Miss Ei-Sook Ahn. When the opening pronouncement of the Lower House of Japanese Diet was made, he stood up from his seat in the visitors' balcony and shouted as planned: "This is a great mission of God, Jehovah's great message!" Then he threw anti-Japanese leaflets to the floor of the Diet, exposing cruel abuse of Korean Christians by Japan and warning them of God's imminent judgement and destruction of Japan as a result of her wrong doing and tyranny, resisting Japanese imposition of Shinto Shrine worship upon Korean Christians. Elder Park, along with his son and their friend, was arrested on the scene. Subsequently, he was sentenced to six years and imprisoned by Japanese authority. While serving in prison, he was martyred at the age of seventy, ending his life as a great man of faith in the glorious history of Korean Church Afterwards, elder Kwan Joon Park was honoured with the Order of Patriotic Service, the Merit of National Foundation, the Republic of Korea. One line from his last poem written during his imprisonment expresses well his firm resolution to die willingly for Jesus Christ. "Since Jesus died for me, I will die for Jesus." He was survived by his wife Kwan-Sun Lee who was a devoted deaconess, his son Young-Chang Park who later became a Christian minister, his daughter-in-law Joung-Ae Lee, a devout Christian woman. AUGUST 15, 1993 Dedicated by Pastor Yong-Ku Oh and Fellow Laymen Tal Seo Church Tae-ku, Korea