page_title: Gwangmu Reform
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Gwangmu Reform / Reforms / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: The Great Han Hospital during the Great Korean Empire. The building was built in 1907 by order of the Japanese Resident-General of Korea Itō Hirobumi.[1] It was designed by a Japanese engineer Yabashi Kenkichi.[2] ↑ "서울대병원-연세대병원 '역사 전쟁' 시작됐다". Pressian Coop. (August 21, 2006). ↑ East meets West in downtown architecture - Foreigner-designed buildings. JoongAng Ilbo (May 2, 2011). Yabashi Genji is incorrect. Yabashi Kenkichi (ja) is correct.
context_page_description: The Gwangmu Reform was a chain of events that was aimed at modernizing and westernizing the Korean Empire as a late starter in the industrial revolution. The reform that took place during the Gwangmu Era from 1897 to 1907 showed, in the long term, Korean potential for starting and continuing modernisation, even in the face of adversity. This sort of development was unseen until the Myon Chang-era of the 1960s and 70s. The Gwangmu reform of Emperor Gojong later staged the fundamental background for future Korean development by building infrastructure, reforming the economy and creating the nucleus of the modern bureaucracy and military.
context_section_description: After Gojong proclaimed a new education law, elementary schools were established by the government. Along with these modern public schools, a number of Western-style schools, consisting of elementary and/or secondary education section(s), were established by Western missionaries.
  During the Gwangmu period, modern secondary schools were opened by the Korean government as well, along with private secondary schools established by rich Korean civilians or Korean modern intellectuals. And several years later, modern higher education was first introduced to Korea: In 1904, the Jejungwon(Severance Hospital) in Seoul, added Severance Hospital Medical School and the attached School of Nursing. In 1905, Bosung College was established under Yi Yong-ik, Chief of the Imperial Treasury: the Commerce Department and the Law Department were the first two departments of the college. The Soongsil Academy, started at Pyongyang in 1897, had opened a college section in 1905 and was authorized as the Soongsil University by the Korean government in 1907. Under the Education Ordinance of 1911 issued by Japanese Governor-General of Korea, however, these institutions lost college status.
  During the period of 1885-1910, a total of 796 schools, from elementary to college levels, were established and maintained by the Western missionaries. This is a significant number in that it comprises about thirty-five percent of the entire number of formal schools (2,250) in the Korean Empire.
caption: The Taehan Hospital built in 1907 by order of the Japanese Resident-General of Korea Itō Hirobumi.[6][7]
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