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= Korea Evangelical Holiness Church =

The Korea Evangelical Holiness Church (기독교대한성결교회; 基督敎大韓聖潔敎會; KEHC) is a Wesleyan-Holiness protestant denomination in South Korea. The fourfold gospel (사중복음; 四重福音) (regeneration, entire sanctification, divine healing and second coming) is the main slogan and doctrine of the church. In 2009, approximately there were 2,663 churches and 548,026 members in South Korea.

History
It was was started as the Mission Hall (1907) and the Bible Institute (1911; now, Seoul Theological University) at Jongno by American evangelical missionaries and Korean seminarians of the Oriental Missionary Society (now, One Mission Society; OMS) in 1907.

The Chosun Jesus Oriental Missionary Society Holiness Church (조선야소교동양선교회성결교회) was organized in 1921. The first founding bishop was Ernest A. Kilbourne. The church was separated from missionaries and reorganized the self-governing annual conference in April, 1933. Three years later, some member left the church and followed the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) in 1936. This church was merged with the Korea National District of Church of the Nazarene in April, 1948.

During the time of Pacific War, the holiness churches in Japan (1942) and Korea (1943) by Imperial Japanese government were persecuted and closed because of their radical faith of Christ's second coming. After the liberation of Korea, the annual conference was reorganized in September, 1945 and adopted the presbyterian polity as a form of representative democracy in April, 1948. However, lots of churches and christians were persecuted by the communist party's army during the Korean War (1950-53).

While the ideological tension arose between the right-wing and the left-wing before and after the Korean War, Korea Holiness Church split into two groups in 1961 because of the political and theological tension between evangelicalism and ecumenism. Conservative groups creates the annual conference of Jesus Korea Sungkyul Church (예수교대한성결교회) and founded their own seminary (now, Sungkyul University) in 1962.

Since the Hart–Celler Act was signed in October 1965, Asian immigration was increasing in United State. Some immigrated Korean pastors and christians who had a holiness faith started the first church at Los Angeles in 1970 and organized a district in U.S. in 1973. It was developed into the annual conference of Korea Evangelical Church of America (기독교미주성결교회) in 1980.

The infant baptism is allowed in 1996. The ordination of women is accepted in June, 2004. The centenary of the birth of the Korea holiness church was celebrated in 2007. The Korea Evangelical Holiness Church was joined as a associate member of the International Conference of the Wesleyan Church in October, 2015.

Beliefs
The fourfold gospel or full gospel (사중복음; 四重福音) (regeneration, entire sanctification, divine healing and second coming) is the main slogan and doctrine of the church. Even though the structure is similar with Albert Benjamin Simpson's fourfold gospel and Aimee Semple McPherson's full gospel, Korea Evangelical Holiness Church is influenced by John Wesley's entire sanctification and Martin Wells Knapp's radical holiness.