Editing Good News Mission (section)

== History ==
The first Good News church was established in 1972 by Ock Soo Park and became a mission when the missionary school was established in 1976, taking over the existing missionary school in place of the returning orthodox evangelical missionaries.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goodnews.or.kr/info/mission02 |title=기쁜소식선교회 태동 |access-date=20 June 2024 |publisher=Good News Mission }}</ref> In the early years, Park conducted vocation Bible schools for the youth in the nearby villages, served as a spiritual counselor at Suwon Prison, and went on witness trips to leper colonies. In the early 1990s, the mission sent its first missionaries to [[Germany]] and [[the United States]]. Missionaries sent to [[Kenya]] in the mid-1990s faced problems with religious registration as foreign groups were denied such registration unless sponsored by a native Kenyan church. Eventually, religious registration was granted to them. In the early 2000s, missionaries were dispatched to [[South Africa]], [[Brazil]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Dominican Republic]], [[Turkey]], and [[Uzbekistan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ospark.pe.kr/rb/?r=pst&c=5/32|title=박옥수목사 홈페이지 - 50주년|website=ospark.pe.kr|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref>

According to the church webpage, it currently has 170 churches in South Korea and 838 international churches.<ref>{{cite web
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