 Forced to evacuate the monastery, the community under Ackermann subsisted in a convent, a Korean parish, and a mission station before all the monks were expelled from the country.The last group of Missionary Benedictines fled the People's Republic of China in August 1952.Three Korean members of the Abbey of Yenki were able to reach South Korea, where they joined a large number of monks who had survived the suppression of the Territorial Abbey of Tokwon.