page_title: Seoul City Sue
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Seoul City Sue / Early life
caption_attribution_description: The tower at the Scarritt Bennett Center (formerly the Scarritt College For Christian Workers).
context_page_description: Anna Wallis Suh, the woman generally associated with the nickname "Seoul City Sue," was a Methodist missionary, educator, and North Korean propaganda radio announcer to United States forces during the Korean War.
  Suh was born in Arkansas, the youngest of six children. After her mother and father died in 1910 and 1914, she relocated to Oklahoma to join a sister's family while she completed high school. She spent her early adult years as an office clerk and Sunday school teacher. Subsequently, she studied at the Southeastern State Teachers College, in Durant, and the Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee, graduating in 1930 with a B.A. in ministry. She spent the next eight years working as a member of the American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission in Korea. As Japanese colonial authorities continued to restrict the activities of foreign missions, Suh joined the staff of Shanghai American School in 1938. There she met and married fellow staff member Sŏ Kyu Ch’ŏl, thus losing her United States citizenship. Late in World War II she was interned by the Japanese for two years with other White Europeans at a camp in suburban Shanghai.
context_section_description: Suh was born Anna Wallis to Albert B. and M. Jane Wallis in 1900 in Lawrence County, Arkansas. She was the youngest of six children.
  Suh's parents died when she was young; her mother died some time between the 1900 and 1910 Census, and her father in October 1914. Subsequently, she relocated to Oklahoma with a sister. Suh attended the Southeastern State Teachers College, in Durant, Oklahoma, before transferring to the Scarritt College for Christian Workers, an institution dedicated to the training of Methodist missionaries, in Nashville, Tennessee. Ann graduated with a B.A. in 1930.
caption: Scarritt College
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