136-year-old letters by US missionary glimpse Joseon-era Korea

South Korea has restored and made public for the first time a 136-year-old scroll of travel letters written by Rosetta Sherwood Hall, an American medical missionary whose work helped lay the foundation for modern medicine and women’s medical education in Korea, the National Archives said Monday. A rare trove of 19th-century letters offers a timely window into the earliest days of modern medicine in Korea and the daily life of Joseon as seen through foreign eyes.