Thanks to the largess of the Korea Institute and the hospitality of Korea 4-H, I was able to travel to Seoul and conduct substantial dissertation research on the latter. 4-H was the largest rural youth club throughout most of the US-allied world after 1945, and the largest in the world was the Republic of Korea’s, which had more participants and a more extensive role than any other national 4-H. 4-H’s main purpose was educating rural youth not formally enrolled in schools with life skills, so its history is also a history of the shifting position of the countryside in a quickly urbanizing Korea. The 4-H main office has a large collection of internal publications and handwritten ephemeralia, mostly old homework written by children participating in its programs. These intimate sources will allow me to write a narrative that is very much alive to individual, human experiences within Korea’s rural-urban transition. Although there are eighteen regional branches of Korea 4-H, each with their own materials collection, the grant this summer allowed me to work through the main office and make substantial progress in the face of numerous archival closings.