James Scarth Gale

James S. Gale (February 19, 1863 – January 31, 1937) was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary, educator and Bible translator in Korea.

From 1884 to 1888 Gale studied arts at the University of Toronto,[2]: 138  including the summer of 1886 at the Collège de France, Paris on a language course.

[2]: 490  On November 13, 1888, he set sail from Vancouver, arriving in Pusan on 12 December, from where he took a coastal vessel to Jemulpo, present-day Incheon.

[2]: 145–46  This village was home to Seo Sang-ryun, one of the first Korean Protestants[2]: 146  and his brother, who had been baptized by Horace Grant Underwood.

In February 1891 he and Samuel A. Moffet visited John Ross (who had first attempted to translate the Bible into Korean) in Mukden, Manchuria and returned to Seoul in June.

In August 1891, terminating the relationship with the Toronto University YMCA, he moved to the American Presbyterian Mission Board, North.

James Scarth Gale said that Koreans claimed to be descended from the gods with slight admixture from Chinese.

[5] Korean Sketches (Chicago: Fleming H. Revell) The Vanguard (New York: Fleming H. Revell) Korea in Transition (New York: Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada) Korean Folk Tales (London: J.M.