Homer Hulbert, US missionary buried in Seoul, gets a bust in Vermont hometown

A memorial service for Homer B. Hulbert, an American missionary and educator who campaigned for Korea's independence from Japanese colonial rule, was held Thursday at his burial site in Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery in Seoul. Born in New Haven, Vermont, in 1863, Hulbert arrived in Korea in 1886 to teach at the Royal English School, the country's first government-run Western-style school. Over the next two decades, he devoted himself to writing, producing the first textbook in the Korean