RE: Don't get your children educated in South Korea.
June 5, 2012 at 7:08 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2012 at 7:15 pm by Anomalocaris.)
I think there is a great deal of truth the notion that many Koreans are impressed by Christianity because Christianity is the religion of the country they are impressed by.
It is probably no coincidence that the part of South Korean population skeptical of too-close relationship with the US, and believe South Korea should embrace a balanced position between China, Japan and the US, and be open to the North Korea, tend to be mainly non-christians, where as the part of South Korean population who favors staunch hostility to North Korea, distance itself from China, and fully embrace US, particularly the conservative diplomacy and economic idiologies of the Bush years, tend to be overwhelmingly evangelical christian.
Evangelical christianity in Korea is also more openly virulent than is common in the US. Despite belonging to a minority religion(South Korea is still 70% Buddhist), South Korea's conservative christian, but democratically elected, president said in a nationality televised event that he believe Soeul - Korea's capital - was "God's city" and god will cause "all heathenish Buddhist temples in Soeul to tumble down".
It is probably no coincidence that the part of South Korean population skeptical of too-close relationship with the US, and believe South Korea should embrace a balanced position between China, Japan and the US, and be open to the North Korea, tend to be mainly non-christians, where as the part of South Korean population who favors staunch hostility to North Korea, distance itself from China, and fully embrace US, particularly the conservative diplomacy and economic idiologies of the Bush years, tend to be overwhelmingly evangelical christian.
Evangelical christianity in Korea is also more openly virulent than is common in the US. Despite belonging to a minority religion(South Korea is still 70% Buddhist), South Korea's conservative christian, but democratically elected, president said in a nationality televised event that he believe Soeul - Korea's capital - was "God's city" and god will cause "all heathenish Buddhist temples in Soeul to tumble down".
