[FRIENDS OF KOREA] An American teenager in Seoul in 1967

In August 1966, an American family of ten - comprising their parents and eight children aged between one and fifteen - embarked on a journey to Seoul. The family, which had recently relocated from Ohio, was greeted by the first volunteers of the Peace Corps K-1 at Kimpo Airport. The older children attended the Seoul Foreign School (SFS) in Yeonhui-dong, located behind Yonsei University.

The school's founders were among the same missionaries who had established Yonsei University, including the Underwoods, Allens, and Avisons. A statue of Horace Grant Underwood, the first Peace Corps country director for Korea, stands in front of one of Yonsei's buildings. As young and unfamiliar with the world, the children initially found their father's announcement of their move to Korea, which they had initially thought to be Berea, Ohio, rather exciting.