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What's with that anyway?
My grandparents' small town in Kansas has a South Korean priest lady
(Not sure what you'd call a female Methodist preacher)
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For whatever
reason S Korea 
has a huge !christians boom. Any !historychads know why that is?
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Catholics had been around for a fricking while and then after the fricking Korean War a fricking huge amount of the fricking economic growth was fricking coming through the fricking West, so for cynical political/economic reasons and out of genuine admiration of American (Western) ideals it grew massively in the fricking 20th century. Several of the fricking chaebol leaders converted or flirted with conversion, I have a fricking good link saved on my phone that I'll pull up later featuring the fricking dialogue between one of the fricking Korean tech billionaires and a fricking priest.
Also Western Christians were fricking consistently anti-commie from the fricking start, it's part of the fricking reason Poland was fricking such a fricking stronghold of Catholicism as a fricking part of their anti-Soviet sentiment. !historychads !christians
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It was very similar in Korea under the Japanese occupation except that it was only a minority of the population that was Christian.
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If I could travel in time I'd love to talk to Christians living under such conditions to get a fricking sense of the fricking degree to which they believed vs saw it as politically useful. As you know I'm not the fricking biggest fan of East Asian cultures and my general impression is fricking that the fricking boom in SK at the fricking upper echelons of society was fricking probably to strengthen ties to American
but the fricking country overall was fricking incredibly poor and Christianity has always appealed to the fricking downtrodden for its moral teachings and promises of peace after this life so in the fricking general population it was fricking likely sincere.
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Seething Chantrycel malding over blood magic chads
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I don't understand this at all
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This here's Great Spirit country
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based and bonklepilled
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Especially in a place like Korea where class is so important.
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Around 1900 a lot of missionaries both Protestant and Catholic went over there and opened up schools. There were advantages to going to their schools, like if you were a girl you could actually go there. When you've got a monopoly on educating half the population, that gets you some opportunities. So significant Christian populations show up around then. Pyongyang especially, which was too bad for their descendants. I think Christianity gained popularity under the Japanese occupation because the dwarf pirates were trying to assimilate the Koreans to their culture. Being Christian was a way of having your own non-Japanese culture. Then there's the Korean War and lots of Christians flee from the north. After the war there's a lot of contact between ordinary people and Americans which I imagine helped spread it. When Koreans move to America they immediately become Christian as soon as they arrive (I don't know how this process works but it's true) so maybe Korean-Americans had some influence. Why it's spread so much in the last few decades, I dunno.
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They were groomed by Christian missionaries.
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The Methodists sent a ton of missionaries to Korea in the 1800's.
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Other Gook churches saw how fricking easy Unification Church; a literal heretic branch and cult, got to international spy frick-frick games with no consequences and decided they can do better.
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