Why does South Korea have such a high Christian population for a country that was not colonized by Western powers (Aside from the post WW2 occupation by the US)?
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...cuz they are smart people.
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I think you answered your own question...:)
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From experience I can tell you that as a group, they are opportunists. I'm not putting them down, it's just the way their culture is. Less than 1/2 of 1% of Japanese are christian, and the latest polls show South Korea at 57%.
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The Goddamned Christian virus made its way there, and the conditions were good enough for it to thrive.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0307/p14s01-lire.html this article may provide you with an answer
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The hive-like structure of American Evangelical style churches is especially attractive to a Confucian society. In addition, Koreans view Christianity as the system of the powerful (Europe, the U.S.) and an alternative to the Chinese (communist) system as well as the Japanese athiest-Shinto system, which they've already been forced to live under from 1905-1945. Koreans therefore see it as a status symbol and means to wealth an respectability in the world at large.
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All I can tell you is what the missionary they sent here told us that Christianity offered him love that he'd never found anywhere else, and certainly not when he was a Bhuddist monk. He said he was empty of anything but anger until he found Christ. And when he found Christ, he gave up everything to go and be a missionary to Africa and to the U.S. Ironic, huh? We, who used to be the ones sending missionaries, have now fallen away from Christ to the point that the countries we sent missionaries to are now sending them to us.
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