Pyongyang Revival

A key figure of the movement is often seen to be Kil Sun-joo (or Gil Seon-ju), one of the first Korean Protestants ordained as a Presbyterian minister.

[1] R. A. Hardie, a Canadian physician and Methodist missionary who primarily worked in Wonsan, was also an inspiration for the movement.

[3] Moreover, in the fall of 1906, Korean Christians began hearing reports about the Welsh revival (1904–1905) and Kassia Hills revival in India (1905–1906), and reportedly had "a great desire to have the same blessing.

"[4][5] In January 1907, across two weeks, the Presbyterian seminary in Pyongyang held a Bible conference of about 1500 Korean men.

At the conference, through the dynamic preaching of Kil Sun-joo and his personal confession of sins, hundreds of others followed in public repentance.