Christianity in Korea:Problem

In just few generations, the power of Christianity has grown into one of the biggest religion in the nation, such as producing the most missionaries in the world, and the number of Christians in Korea is greater than the Christian members in Europe. On a typical Sunday of Soon Bok Eum Gyo hwe, more than 200,000 worshipers attend seven services in a building, claiming as one of the biggest church in the world. 

 

Picture: This is the picture of biggest church in Korea and how fancy the building is.

The Christianity has begun in Korea when Missionaries from Europe and China would come to Korea to convert their religion and traditions. In the late 19th century, Protestant missionaries were able to establish Korea’s educational institutions, including Ewha Womans' University in 1886. The establishment of institutions led to a rapid increase in the number of Christians. 

Unlike their first intention, like most religion, when it gets too big it starts get involved with politics and greed of human beings. The mega churches in Korea such as, Soon Bok Eum Gyohwe do not receive any respect or admiration from the outer society as they once did. Instead, they are receiving harsh and severe criticism from society. One of the biggest problems is the privatization of church; inheriting church to the son of the senior pastor, and spending hundreds of millions of dollars in building church when there are practically millions of churches in Korea. The scary part of Christianity in Korea today is not only the mega churches themselves, but small churches wanting to be a big player. Mega churches became a role model for such small churches, and their members think that increasing the members as the goal of successful ministry.