A Vintage Underwood Typewriter and Its Ties to Korea
By Don Southerton My Vintage Underwood I have long desired a vintage Underwood typewriter. In part, as a writer it calls back to a time of wordsmithing before the days of word processors and MacBook Pros. More personal, my second book Intrepid Americans: Bold Koreans looked at the origins of Korean entrepreneurialism. Western missionaries had a profound impact on their Korean congregations--preaching sermons with strong 19th century capitalist gospel underpinnings. Among the first missionaries dispatched to Korea was Horace Grant Underwood. An excerpt from Intrepid Americans: Bold Koreans-Early Korean Trade, Concessions, and Entrepreneurship . iBooks. https://itun.es/us/tRBJE.l God and Mammon Thus do commerce and the Church go hand in hand, here [in Korea] as elseware, in forwarding His kingdom and spreading abroad the knowledge of the Prince of Peace. —Horace G. Underwood, The Call of Korea , 1908 Fig. 7.8 Horace Grant Underwood Instrumental in fostering the ...