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There is an American doctor who laid the foundation for modern medical care and education by going through the end of the Joseon Dynasty, the Japanese colonial period, and our unfortunate history.

This time, a Korean-American joint play was created to remember him.



Kim Soo-hyun, a reporter specializing in culture and arts, delivers.



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Rosetta Sherwood Hall rests with her family at Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery.



In 1890, at the age of 25, she set foot on Korean soil as an American Methodist medical missionary, devoting herself to service despite the loss of her husband, also a doctor, and her three-year-old daughter to an epidemic. 



She built a hospital for women patients who were not being properly treated and trained medical personnel.



She founded a school for the disabled and also developed Korean Braille.



The hospital and training center he built became the basis for Ewha Womans University Hospital and Korea University Medical School. 



[I played the role of Rosetta.]



[I will play Rosetta]



[All of them are Rosetta]



Eight actors from the theater company Magic Bangjin and the American Living Theater alternately become Rosetta and then become other people.



As Korean and English lines are mixed, the situation of Rosetta, who had to take care of a patient in a strange land where the language is not spoken, is vividly revealed.



Founded in 1947, the Living Theater is a legendary theater company that even went through Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, and has presented experimental plays with a strong sense of sociality.



This play started from Rosetta's diary, which a Korean director from the Living Theater happened to see.



[Kim Jeong-han/'Rosetta' script/director: (in the diary) there was a word written in crooked Korean, "God help me."

Seeing that, I think I was motivated...

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[Brad Burgess/Living Theater Artistic Director/Actor: We know that there is always a lot of pain around the world, but what are we doing about it?

The answer is simple.

Just be nice to each other.

I was excited when I heard about Rosetta from the director.]



The play, in which Korean and American artists revisited the life of Rosetta together, will be performed in Seoul and New York after a pilot performance at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju.



(Video editing: Choi Hye-young, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)