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HISTORY

2015 ~ Foundation

2009
  • Ewha Womans University Cancer Center for Women established.
1993
  • Mokdong Hospital established.
1961
  • Sinchon Attached Hospital was integrated into Dongdaemun Women's Hospital.
1954
  • Sinchon Attached Hospital was completed.
1953
  • Busan Ewha Healing Center returned to Seoul.
1952
  • Ewha Healing Center was established in Daecheong-dong, Busan, and Professor Se-Gyu Lee took office when the university took shelter in Busan during the Korean War.
1945
  • Dongdaemun Women's Hospital established.
1930
  • Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital was modified to East Gate Woman Hospital that was dedicated to dealing with obstetrics and gynecology.
1912
  • Jeongdong Pogoonyogoan and Dongdaemun Baldwin Dispensary were unified as Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital and Dr. Mary S. Stewart took office as the 1st director.
1903
  • The Nurses’ Training School established in Pogoonyogoan.
1901
  • Esther Kim Park, the first Korean woman doctor, took office as the 5th director of Pogoonyogoan.
1893
  • Dr. Mary M. Cutler took office as the 4th director of Pogoonyogoan and the 1st director of Baldwin Dispensary.
1892
  • Baldwin Dispensary, a branch hospital of Pogoonyogoan, was established in Dongdaemun.
1890
  • Dr. Rosetta S. Hall took office as the 3rd director of Pogoonyogoan and started medical education for 5 students of Ewha Hakdang to promote women’s medical education.
1889
  • Following the will of Dr. M. Howard who returned her country due to illness from overwork, Dr. William .B. Scranton took office as the 2nd director of Pogoonyogoan.
1887
October
  • Clinic for women was established in Jeongdong when Dr. M. Howard was dispatched to Korea on 31st. King Gojong named the clinic as Pogoonyogoan, the predecessor of Ewha Womans University Hospital.
1886
May
  • Dr. William. B. The founder of Ewha Womans University, Mary. F. Scranton, and her son Kr. W.B.Scranton requested the Womans Foreign Missionary Society to establish a women's hospital and dispatch a female doctor. Ms. Scranton felt pity for Korean women who could not get medical treatment. According to the traditional rules of Korea, women should not visit the hospitals with male practitioners.
  • Dr. William. B. Scranton opened a city hospital next to the Ewha School.
1885
  • Dr. William. B. Scranton, a US Northern Methodist medical missionary, started private caring in his modified house.