Pages 11-27 – Richard Rutt – ‘Memoirs of Korea in the Mid-1950s’

After wartime experience at Bletchley Park, where he learned Japanese, Richard Rutt went up to Cambridge to read Modern Languages. He then took Holy Orders in the Church of England and offered himself as a missionary. In 1954, when he was 29, it was decided that he should go to Korea. He was assigned to Anjung village in Kyŏnggi Province. Though he had been a curate in Cambridge from 1951, it was ...