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Hakyari Mission Station is under Ganseong Parish in the Yeongbuk District of the Diocese of Chuncheon and is also presented by the diocese as an old Catholic village and pilgrimage site. Catholics in this mountain village of Goseong have maintained a mission community for generations, making it a clear example of Korea's mission-station tradition, through which Catholics living far from a parish church sustained their faith.
Its significance lies less in the building itself than in the continuity of the Catholic village. Diocesan materials preserve records of Catholics and mission activity dating back to the late nineteenth century, allowing Hakyari to show the deep roots of Catholicism in the Yeongbuk region. The community today remains connected to Ganseong Parish for its liturgical and pastoral life.
History & origins
Official sources describe the exact beginning of the Hakyari Catholic community in two ways. The Diocese of Chuncheon mission-station directory lists 1882 as the year of establishment, while the diocesan shrine account, drawing on Bishop Mutel's diary and a 1934 article in Kyunghyang Magazine, suggests that the mission community may have formed around 1877.
In his diary entry of December 4, 1900, Bishop Mutel recalled administering the sacraments in 1882 in a pottery village in the area and noted that the mission house in Hakyadong was the home of Ha Bang-ji-geo, the elder brother of the Yongsan seminarian Paul Ha. Diocesan material records 44 Catholics in 1882 and an average of about 85 during the 1910s.
A separate mission house was prepared in 1914. A 1934 article in Kyunghyang Magazine described the steady development of the Hakyari mission, noting how the community sustained its mission life despite the poverty of a rural setting. These records show Hakyari not merely as an old building, but as a living trace of a Catholic village whose faith and daily life have continued in the Yeongbuk region since the late nineteenth century.
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- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Total floor area: 21㎡
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Official website: http://www.cccatholic.or.kr
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