[2][3] Kim's parents allowed her to study under two conditions: she was forbidden to go to the United States, and to leave school prior to marriage.

When American missionary doctor Rosetta Sherwood Hall visited the school, Kim was asked to work as her interpreter.

Rosetta Hall convinced Kim that Koreans were afflicted by Confucian prohibitions that did not allow them to be properly treated.

[2][6] After obtaining her degree, Pak returned to Korea and settled in the first female hospital in the country, Bogu-yogwan (Korean: 보구 여관; Hanja: 普救女館), in Jeongdon, Seoul.

[2] Pak was one of the historical figures featured in a missionary pageant titled "A Cloud of Witnesses" by Dora Patterson, performed in Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 1933.