Missing AirAsia Jet Carried A Young Family Of Korean Christian Missionaries

Missing AirAsia Jet Carried A Young Family Of Korean Christian Missionaries
SURABAYA, INDONESIA - DECEMBER 29: Indonesian military commander marks the map at the Crisis Center of AirAsia at Juanda Airport on December 29, 2014 in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Indonesian Navy deployed 10 warship, 4 planes and one helicopter to find the AirAsia missing plane, flying from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board, on December 28, 2014. (Photo by Syaiful Arif/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
SURABAYA, INDONESIA - DECEMBER 29: Indonesian military commander marks the map at the Crisis Center of AirAsia at Juanda Airport on December 29, 2014 in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Indonesian Navy deployed 10 warship, 4 planes and one helicopter to find the AirAsia missing plane, flying from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board, on December 28, 2014. (Photo by Syaiful Arif/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

YEOSU, South Korea—The young Korean family aboard the AirAsia jetliner that vanished on Sunday belonged to a group of active South Korean travelers: Christian missionaries.

Park Seong-beom, 37 years old, and his wife Lee Kyung-hwa had moved to Indonesia in September with their infant daughter to begin teaching Korean and computer skills in the town of Malang, on the eastern half of Java island.

Mr. Park was a missionary from his home church, Yeosu First Presbyterian Church, based in this fishing town of about 300,000 people at the southern coast of the Korean peninsula. Ms. Lee was a missionary sent by her church in Seoul.

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