Seeds of Love: Sungsoo Kim on Mary Ingle Wright’s legacy in South Korea

‘A woman of remarkable contradictions.’

by Sungsoo Kim 22nd August 2025

In the summer of 1953, as the Korean war drew to its devastating close, a young English woman stepped off a ship in Busan, South Korea. Mary Ingle Wright, just thirty years old, with a fresh medical degree, had volunteered to join the Friends Service Unit in one of the world’s most desolate places. What she found would shape her life, and plant seeds of Quaker faith that would flourish for generations.