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Evangelical Movement Spreads Throughout South Korea
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The Yoido Full Gospel Church in South Korea claims to be the largest church in the world, and the country is second only to the U.S. in its number of missionaries. NewsHour reports on the spreading evangelical movement in the country.
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"³²ÇÑÀÇ ¼±±³»çµé" 02-28-2007

FRED DE SAM LAZARO, Correspondent, Twin Cities Public Television: It's a classic landscape you see in former European colonies in Africa or Asia, but this missionary outpost rises amid rubber trees and sugarcane fields in the ancient kingdom of Thailand. The church and the children's home that it runs is headed by a missionary from Korea.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO, Åë½Å¿ø, Twin Cities Public Television: ¿ì¸®°¡ ºÁ¿Ô´ø ¾Æ½Ã¾Æ³ª ¾ÆÇÁ¸®Ä«¿¡¼­ÀÇ ÀÌÀü À¯·´ ±¹°¡µéÀÇ ½Ä¹ÎÁ¤Ã¥Àº Á¤ÇüÀûÀÎ ¹æ¹ýÀ̾ú½À´Ï´Ù. ±×·¯³ª °í´ë ű¹ ¿Õ±¹ÀÇ »çÅÁ¼ö¼ö ¹ç°ú °í¹«³ª¹«µé¿¡ µÑ·¯½Î¿© ÀÖ´Â ÀÌ Çѱ¹ ¼±±³»çÀÇ ÀüÃʱâÁö´Â ºÎÈïÇÏ°í ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù. ±×¸®°í ±×°÷ÀÇ ±³È¸¿Í ¾î¸°ÀÌ ÁýÀº Çѱ¹ ¼±±³»ç¿¡ ÀÇÇؼ­ »ç¿ªÀÇ Áß½ÉÁö·Î º¯ÇØ°¡°í ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù.

REV. JUNG WOONG KIM (through translator): As we look back, we realize that we owe a lot to Christianity, and we would like to share it with the rest of the world.
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FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Reverend Jung Woong Kim's native South Korea is better known as an exporter of cars and TVs, but Korea is second only to the U.S. in the number of Christian missionaries it sends to the rest of the world.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: ±èÁ¤¿õ ¸ñ»ç´ÔÀÌ Å¾ Çѱ¹Àº TV¿Í ÀÚµ¿Â÷µéÀ» ¼öÃâÇÏ´Â ³ª¶ó·Î Àß ¾Ë·ÁÁ® ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù. ±×·¯³ª Çѱ¹Àº ºñ±âµ¶±³ ±¹°¡·Î ¼±±³»ç¸¦ ÆļÛÇϴµ¥ À־ ¹Ì±¹ ´ÙÀ½À¸·Î ¸¹Àº ¼ýÀÚ¸¦ º¸³Â½À´Ï´Ù.

The nerve center of this new evangelism is the South Korean capital. At 4:30 on a frigid Monday morning in Seoul, the parking lot is full and the Onnuri Church at its 9,000-person capacity. In a city that also worships the work ethic, this is how tens of thousands of Koreans begin their workweek.
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Onnuri Evangelical Presbyterian Church began 20 years ago and has seen massive growth, says Pastor Yongjo Ha.
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REV. YONGJO HA, Onnuri Presbyterian Church (through translator): We started with 12 families 20 years ago and have grown into a mega-church of 45,000 registered members. This is the power and work of the Holy Spirit; it's taking place in the heart of metropolitan Seoul.
¿Â´©¸®±³È¸ ÇÏ¿ëÁ¶ ¸ñ»ç: ¿ì¸®´Â 20³â Àü¿¡ 12°¡Á¤À¸·Î ½ÃÀÛÇßÀ¸¸ç, µî·Ï±³ÀÎ 4¸¸ 5õ¸íÀÇ °Å´ëÇÑ ±³È¸·Î ¼ºÀåÇß½À´Ï´Ù. ÀÌ°ÍÀº ¼º·É´ÔÀÇ ¿ª»çÇϽÉÀÌ°í ´É·ÂÀ̽ʴϴÙ. ÀÌ·¯ÇÑ ¿ª»ç´Â ¼öµµ ¼­¿ïÀÇ Á߽ɿ¡¼­ ÀϾ°í ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: And Onnuri is not even the biggest church in the bustling South Korean capital.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: ±×¸®°í ¿Â´©¸®±³È¸°¡ Çѱ¹ÀÇ ¼öµµ ¼­¿ïÀÇ °¡Àå È°±âÂ÷°í °¡Àå Å« ±³È¸´Â ¾Æ´Õ´Ï´Ù.

The Yoido Full Gospel Church claims to be the largest single church in the world. Its 800,000 members attend different services across 21 campuses.
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CHURCH PASTOR: Everything is possible for he who believes.
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Christianity's rise in Korea
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FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Perhaps a third of South Korea's 48 million people call themselves Christian. That's more than the number who subscribe to the traditional belief systems, Buddhism and Confucianism, combined.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: ¾Æ¸¶µµ 4õ 8¹é¸¸ Çѱ¹ »ç¶÷µéÀÇ 3ºÐÀÇ 1Àº ½º½º·Î ±âµ¶±³ÀÎÀ̶ó°í ÇÒ °ÍÀÔ´Ï´Ù. ÀÌ°ÍÀº À¯±³, ºÒ±³ µî Çѱ¹ÀÇ ÀüÅë Á¾±³¸¦ ¹Ï´Â »ç¶÷µéº¸´Ù ¸¹Àº ¼ýÀÚÀÔ´Ï´Ù.

Just a century ago, there were almost no Christians in Korea. Scholars cannot recall anywhere, at least in recent history, that a faith has spread so quickly. It could have much to do with Christianity's role in Korea's recent history.
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The first missionaries, American Presbyterians, arrived in Korea in the late 1800s. They became closely allied with Korea's battle for independent from Japanese rule. They also built an impressive legacy.
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SOUTH KOREAN HISTORIAN (through translator): They established junior high, college, medical facilities, and they evangelized the noble families. So when we were still under Japanese, those intelligentsia, they linked that believing in Jesus Christ is equal to working for Korea's liberation movement.
Çѱ¹ ¿ª»çÇÐÀÚ: ±×µéÀº ÁßÇб³¿Í ´ëÇб³¿Í ÀÇ·á ½Ã¼³À» ¼¼¿ü°í, ±ÍÁ·µé¿¡°Ô º¹À½À» ÀüÇß½À´Ï´Ù. ±×·¡¼­ ¿ì¸®°¡ ÀϺ»ÀÇ ÅëÄ¡ÇÏ¿¡ ÀÖ¾úÁö¸¸, ÀÌ·¯ÇÑ Áö½Ä °è±ÞµéÀº ¿¹¼ö´Ô²²¼­ Çѱ¹ÀÇ Çعæ¿îµ¿À» À§ÇÏ¿© °øÆòÇÏ°Ô ÀÏÇϽŴٴ ¹ÏÀ½À» °®°í ÀÖ¾ú½À´Ï´Ù.

CHURCH PASTOR: ... and proclaim your word, there will be miracles...
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FRED DE SAM LAZARO: For many, it's not hard to believe in miracles. South Korea, ravaged by war a half-century ago, has achieved living standards equal to some European Union nations, notes Pastor Chong Gil Hong.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: ±âÀûÀ» ¹Ï´Â °ÍÀº ¾î·ÆÁö ¾Ê¾Ò½À´Ï´Ù. Çѱ¹Àº ¹Ý¼¼±â Àü¿¡ ÀüÀïÀ¸·Î ÀÎÇÏ¿© ȲÆóÈ­ µÇ¾ú½À´Ï´Ù. ±×·¯³ª Áö±ÝÀº À¯·´ ±¹°¡µé°ú ºñ½ÁÇÑ ¼öÁØÀÇ »îÀÇ ÁúÀ» ¼ºÃë ÇÏ¿´´Ù°í È«Á¤±æ ¸ñ»ç´ÔÀº ±â·ÏÇÏ¿´½À´Ï´Ù.

REV. CHONG GIL HONG (through translator): When I was young, Korea's GDP at the time was the same as Congo, and I could never imagine Korea as an industrialized country. It is just a miracle.
È«Á¤±æ ¸ñ»ç: Á¦°¡ Àþ¾úÀ» ¶§ Çѱ¹ÀÇ GDP´Â ±× ´ç½ÃÀÇ Äá°í¿Í °°¾Ò½À´Ï´Ù. Àú´Â Çѱ¹ÀÌ ÀÌ·¸°Ô »ê¾÷ µµ½Ã·Î ¹ßÀüÇÒ °ÍÀ̶ó°í´Â »ó»óÇÒ ¼öµµ ¾ø¾ú½À´Ï´Ù. ÀÌ°ÍÀÌ ¹Ù·Î ±âÀûÀÔ´Ï´Ù.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: A miracle from God?
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Çϳª´Ô²²¼­ ÀÌ·ç½Å ±âÀûÀԴϱî?

REV. CHONG GIL HONG: Yes, I believe.
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(through translator): When we were hopeless, the Western missionaries came and they introduced us to the hope in Jesus Christ. So we have a very holy obligation to share this hope in Jesus Christ with those people who are still in their misery.
ÀúÈñ°¡ Èñ¸ÁÀÌ ¾øÀ» ¶§, ¼­¹æÀÇ ¼±±³»çµéÀÌ ÀÌ ¶¥¿¡ ¿Í¼­ ¿¹¼ö´Ô ¾È¿¡¼­ÀÇ Èñ¸ÁÀ» °¡¸£ÃÄ ÁÖ¾ú½À´Ï´Ù. ±×·¡¼­ ÀúÈñ¿¡°Ô´Â ¾ÆÁ÷µµ °íÅë Áß¿¡ ÀÖ´Â »ç¶÷µé¿¡°Ô ¿¹¼ö´Ô ¾È¿¡¼­ÀÇ Èñ¸ÁÀ» ³ª´©°í ÇÔ²²ÇÒ °Å·èÇÑ Àǹ«°¡ ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù.

Helping North Korean neighbors
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FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Nowhere is that misery greater than a few miles away in North Korea, he says. Behind the pomp and ceremonies, the North suffers from widespread famine and deprivation.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: ±×°¡ ¸»Çϱ⸦ ºÒ°ú ¼ö¸¶ÀÏ ¶³¾îÁ® ÀÖ´Â ºÏÇѺ¸´Ù ´õ °íÅë´çÇÏ´Â °÷Àº ¾ø´Ù°í Çß½À´Ï´Ù. ȣȭ·Ó°í °Ñ Ä¡·Ê »ÓÀÎ ÃàÁ¦³ª Çà»ç ÀÇ½Ä µÞ¸éÀÇ ºÏÇÑÀº °ÈÀâÀ» ¼ö ¾ø´Â ±â¾Æ¿Í ºó°ïÀ¸·Î °íÅë´çÇÏ°í ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù.  

Care packages from the South, spearheaded by churches, have helped some. That assistance slowed down after the North's nuclear tests, says Pastor Hong. He leads a mission called the North-South Sharing Movement.
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REV. CHONG GIL HONG (through translator): They were very upset and disappointed. There are fewer groups willing to help the North now. After the nuclear tests, some donors who promised to donate canceled their pledges.
È«Á¤±æ ¸ñ»ç: ÈÄ¿øÀÚµéÀº ¸Å¿ì ½½ÆÛÇß°í ½Ç¸ÁÇß½À´Ï´Ù. ÇöÀç´Â ¼Ò¼öÀÇ ±×·ì¸¸ÀÌ ºÏÇÑÀ» µ½°í ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù. ºÏÇÑÀÇ ÇÙ ½ÇÇè ÀÌÈÄ, ÀϺΠÈÄ¿øÀÚµéÀº ÀڽŵéÀÇ ÈÄ¿ø ¾à¼ÓÀ» Ãë¼ÒÇÏ¿´½À´Ï´Ù.

REV. YONG JO HA (through translator): Of all the countries, North Korea is the one who uses food as a weapon. They manipulate people with food in order to control them.
ÇÏ¿ëÁ¶ ¸ñ»ç: ¼ö¸¹Àº ³ª¶óµé Áß¿¡, ºÏÇÑÀÌ ¹Ù·Î ½Ä·®À» ¹«±â·Î »ï´Â ³ª¶ó ÁßÀÇ ÇϳªÀÔ´Ï´Ù. ±×µéÀº ÀڽŵéÀÇ Àǵµ´ë·Î ¹é¼ºµéÀ» ÅëÁ¦Çϱâ À§ÇÏ¿© ½Ä·®À» µµ±¸·Î ÀÌ¿ëÇÕ´Ï´Ù.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Many church leaders criticize the North and support hard-line policies, such as those of the U.S., which has pushed for strict economic sanctions. At the same time, they say the South, and especially its Christian churches, have no choice but to maintain humanitarian aid.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: ¸¹Àº ±³È¸ ÁöµµÀÚµéÀÌ ºÏÇÑÀ» ºñÆÇÇÏ°í, ¹Ì±¹ÀÇ °æ¿ìó·³ ¾ö°ÝÇÑ °æÁ¦Á¦À縦 ÅëÇÑ ¾Ð·ÂÀ» Çà»çÇÒ ¼ö ÀÖ´Â °­°æ³ë¼±ÀÇ Á¤Ä¡ÀεéÀ» Áö¿øÇÕ´Ï´Ù. °°Àº ½Ã°£, ±×µéÀº Çѱ¹¿¡ Ưº°È÷ ±³È¸µé¿¡°Ô, ÀεµÁÖÀÇÀûÀÎ Áö¿øÀ» À¯ÁöÇϱâ À§Çؼ­´Â ´Ù¸¥ ¹æµµ°¡ ¾ø´Ù°í ¸»ÇÕ´Ï´Ù.

SOUTH KOREAN HISTORIAN (through translator): North Korea is run by a group of terrorists who own a nuclear weapon. And the Bush administration takes a more aggressive approach to them, but to us they are our families. We are all the same nationality. We have to embrace them, like a mother would embrace a prodigal son.
Çѱ¹ ¿ª»çÇÐÀÚ: ºÏÇÑÀº ÀÚ½ÅÀÇ ÇÙ¹«±â¸¦ ¼ÒÀ¯ÇÑ Å×·¯ Áý´Ü¿¡ ÀÇÇؼ­ À¯ÁöµÇ°í ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù.  ±×¸®°í ºÎ½Ã ´ëÅë·ÉÀÇ ´ëÀÀ ¹æ¹ýÀº ±×µé¿¡°Ô ´õ °ø°ÝÀûÀ¸·Î Á¢±ÙÇÏ°í ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù. ±×·¯³ª ¿ì¸®¿¡°Ô ºÏÇÑÀº ¿ì¸®ÀÇ ÇüÁ¦ÀÔ´Ï´Ù. ¿ì¸®´Â ¸ðµÎ °°Àº ¹ÎÁ·ÀÔ´Ï´Ù. ¿ì¸®´Â ¾î¸Ó´Ï°¡ ¸Á³ª´Ï ¾ÆµéÀ» ²¸¾È´Â °Íó·³ ±×µéÀ» Æ÷¿ëÇØ¾ß ÇÕ´Ï´Ù.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Some churches have gone way beyond sending aid to North Korea. The Durihana Mission Church, for example, is part of an underground network that assists defectors from the North.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: ÀϺΠ±³È¸µéÀº ºÏÇÑÀ» µ½´Â ÀÏÀ» µÚ·Î ÇÏ°í ¶°³µ½À´Ï´Ù. ±×·¯³ª µÎ¸®Çϳª¼±±³È¸´Â ºÏÇÑÀ» Å»ÃâÇÑ Å»ºÏÀÚµéÀ» µµ¿ÍÁÖ´Â ºñ¹Ð Á¶Á÷¸ÁÀÇ ÇÑ ºÎºÐÀÔ´Ï´Ù.

CHURCH PASTOR (through translator): Let us pray for the six people who have left North Korea today for freedom.
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Controversy over aid to defectors
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Seoul are recent arrivals. We were asked not to show their faces to protect family still in North Korea. These women linked up with the Durihana Church after escaping first to China.
¼­¿ï¿¡´Â »õ·Î µµÂøÇÑ Å»ºÏÀÚµéÀÌ ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù. ¿ì¸®´Â ¾ÆÁ÷µµ ºÏÇÑ¿¡ ³²°ÜÁ® ÀÖ´Â ±×µéÀÇ °¡Á·µéÀ» º¸È£Çϱâ À§ÇÏ¿© ±×µéÀÇ ¾ó±¼À» °ø°³ÇÏÁö ¸»¾Æ´Þ¶ó´Â ¿äûÀ» ¹Þ¾Ò½À´Ï´Ù. ÀÌ ¿©¼ºµéÀº Áß±¹À¸·Î Å»ÃâÇÑ ÈÄ¿¡ µÎ¸®Çϳª ¼±±³È¸¿Í ¿¬°áÀÌ µÇ¾ú½À´Ï´Ù.

NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR (through translator): The woman who helped me escape had heard of Pastor Chun. We found the Web site and made a request for help.
Å»ºÏÀÚ: ÀúÀÇ Å»ÃâÀ» µµ¿ÍÁØ ¿©¼ºÀ¸·ÎºÎÅÍ Ãµ ¸ñ»ç´Ô¿¡ ´ëÇØ µé¾ú½À´Ï´Ù. ÀúÈñ´Â ÀÎÅͳݿ¡¼­ µÎ¸®Çϳª ȨÆäÀÌÁö¸¦ ã¾Ò°í µµ¿òÀ» ¿äûÇÏ¿´½À´Ï´Ù.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Durihana has operatives in China, Mongolia and several Southeast Asian countries. We were asked not to mention this country for fear of antagonizing the host government.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: µÎ¸®Çϳª´Â Áß±¹°ú ¸ù°í¿Í ¸î ¸îÀÇ µ¿³²¾Æ½Ã¾Æ ±¹°¡¿¡¼­ È°µ¿ÇÏ°í ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù. ¿ì¸®´Â ÇöÀç Å»ºÏÀÚµéÀÌ Ã¼·ùÇÏ°í ÀÖ´Â ±¹°¡µéÀÇ ¹Ý°¨À» ¿ì·ÁÇÏ¿© ±× ³ª¶óµéÀÇ À̸§À» ¾ð±ÞÇÏÁö ¸»¾ÆÁÙ °ÍÀ» ¿äû¹Þ¾Ò½À´Ï´Ù.

That's already happened in China, where Durihana's pastor, Chun Ki Won, spent eight months in prison. China strongly opposes aid to North Korean defectors.
±×·¯ÇÑ ÀÏÀº ÀÌ¹Ì Áß±¹¿¡¼­ ÀϾ¾ú°í, õ±â¿ø ¸ñ»ç´Â 8°³¿ù°£ÀÇ ¿Á°í¸¦ Ä¡·¶½À´Ï´Ù. Áß±¹ Á¤ºÎ´Â Å»ºÏÀÚµéÀ» µ½´Â ÀÏÀ» °­ÇÏ°Ô ¹æÇØÇÏ°í ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù.

REV. CHUN KI WON, Durihana Church (through translator): They are leaving for China in search of food, but the Chinese government sees them as criminals, so China sends those defectors back and, as a result, these people are sometimes executed, imprisoned.
µÎ¸®Çϳª¼±±³È¸ õ±â¿ø ¸ñ»ç: ±×µéÀº ½Ä·®À» ±¸Çϱâ À§ÇÏ¿© Áß±¹À¸·Î °©´Ï´Ù. ±×·¯³ª Áß±¹ Á¤ºÎ´Â ±×µéÀ» ÁËÀÎ Ãë±ÞÇÏ°í, ºÏ¼Û½ÃÅ°°í, °á±¹ ±× »ç¶÷µéÀº °¨¿Á¿¡ °¤È÷±âµµ ÇÏ°í °æ¿ì¿¡ µû¶ó¼­´Â »çÇüÀ» ´çÇϱ⵵ ÇÕ´Ï´Ù.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Some analysts worry that activities like Durihana's are encouraging defections and complicating the politics in what remains one of the world's most militarized frontiers.
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Jeong-Min Suh is a professor of religious history at Yonsei University in Seoul.
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FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Pastor Chun insists he serves only those who've already escaped North Korea. He says the church's main goal is an evangelized, reunified Korea.
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FRED DE SAM LAZARO: If or when two nations become one on the Korean Peninsula, churches can count on an army of North Korean apostles. Durihana itself has resettled 600 people it hopes some day to dispatch not to distant countries, but to the land of their birth.
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02-28-2007

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COVER:
South Korean Missionaries
February 09, 2007    Episode no. 1024

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a special report today on the phenomenal growth and political activism of Christianity in China's neighbor South Korea. It has many of the biggest churches in the world, sending out many thousands of missionaries. It also ministers actively and sometimes controversially to defectors from the communist North. Fred de Sam Lazaro begins his story with a Korean missionary in Thailand.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Amid the rubber trees and sugar cane fields of rural Thailand lies a missionary outpost of the Global Christian Fellowship. It is home for about two dozen children whose parents, mostly incarcerated or chemically dependent, are unable to care for them. They are led in prayer by Presbyterian minister Jung Woong Kim, who has lived in this mostly Buddhist nation for 30 years.

Reverend
JUNG WOONG KIM (Global Christian Fellowship, through translator): I came here to spread the Gospel. But to get into people's hearts, you have to understand their needs, especially those of young children, the elderly, drug addicts.

DE SAM LAZARO: Reverend Kim and most of his funding come from South Korea, which is now second only to the United States in the number of missionaries it sends to the world.

Photo of KangReverend
SAMUEL KANG (Korean World Mission Association): Sixteen thousand six hundred and sixteen missionaries to 173 countries. By the end of AD 2030, we are going to try to send 100,000 Korean missionaries.

DE SAM LAZARO: To understand the phenomenon of Korean evangelism, he says, you need to go to where it all began. It is 4:30 on a frigid Monday morning in Seoul, but the parking lot is full and the church filled to its 9000-person capacity. In a city that also worships the work ethic, this is how tens of thousands of Koreans begin their work week. At the Onnuri church, it's a two-hour prayer service. Onnuri calls itself an evangelical Presbyterian church. It began 20 years ago and has seen massive growth.

Photo of HaReverend
YONGJO HA (Onnuri Presbyterian Church, through translator): In our case, we started with 12 families 20 years ago and have grown into a megachurch of 45,000 registered members. It's not because the senior pastor has some kind of charisma, but this is the power and work of the Holy Spirit. It's taking place in the heart of metropolitan Seoul.

DE SAM LAZARO: And Onnuri is not the biggest church in the prosperous, bustling South Korean capital. The Yoido Full Gospel Church claims to be the largest single church in the world. Its 800,000 members attend different services across dozens of campuses, all hearing the same message.

UNIDENTIFIED MINISTER (speaking at a sermon, through translator): Everything is possible for [him] who believes.

DE SAM LAZARO: Services are translated into several languages including Chinese, Japanese and English until the crescendo, which leads to most in the congregation speaking in tongues.

Photo of LimReverend
HOON LIM (Yoido Full Gospel Church, through translator): This church emphasizes the gift of tongues. Speaking in tongues and through God's tongue people can communicate directly with God, and through that activity they can also receive the gift of healing people.

DE SAM LAZARO: He says the Yoido church is adding 10, 000 members every year -- this in a country where there were hardly any Christians a century ago. Nowhere, at least in recent history, has Christianity grown so much in such a short period. It may have much to do with Christianity's place in recent Korean history. Unlike many other countries where Christianity was brought by missionaries, in Korea Photo of Old Missionarythe church is not part of a colonial legacy. The colonial power here was Japan, and churches were involved very closely with the Korean independence movement. Although some Catholic influences in East Asia date back to the late 1700s, the first missionaries -- American Presbyterians -- arrived in the late 1800s.

Rev.
HA (through translator): The missionaries 120 years ago came and built schools first. They established junior high, college, medical facilities, and they evangelized the noble families. So when we were still under Japanese, those intelligentsia -- they linked that believing in Jesus Christ is equal to working for Korea's liberation movement.

DE SAM LAZARO: And for a country that's seen unprecedented growth in wealth and prosperity in the past four decades, it's not hard to believe in miracles. Korea today is considered a developed country with a standard of living equal to some European Union nations.

Photo of HongReverend
CHONG GIL HONG (North-South Sharing Movement, through translator): Korean economic development is unbelievable. When I was young, Korea's GDP at the time was the same as Congo, and I could never imagine Korea as an industrialized country.

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Rev. HA (through translator): When we were hopeless, the Western missionaries came, and they introduced us to the hope in Jesus Christ, so we have a very holy obligation to share this hope in Jesus Christ with those people who are still in their misery.

DE SAM LAZARO: Nowhere is that misery more visible than above the 38th parallel where the Korean peninsula, liberated from Japanese colonization after World War II, was divided -- the theater of a brutal war from 1950 to 1953. Today, the increasingly isolated North suffers frequently from famine and deprivation and things would be much worse but for care packages from the South, spearheaded by the churches.

Rev.
HA (speaking during sermon, through translator): Of all the countries, North Korea is the one who uses food as a weapon. They manipulate people with food in order to control them.

Photo of hand book
DE SAM LAZARO: Despite the North's nuclear saber rattling, church leaders say they have no option but to continue with their humanitarian cause and the long-term goal of reunifying their divided nation.

Rev.
HA (through translator): To us they are our families. We are all the same nationality. We have to embrace them like a mother would embrace a prodigal son.

DE SAM LAZARO: For some churches resettling defectors from the North is central to their mission. The Durihana Mission Church is part of an underground network to assist defectors.

Photo of WonReverend
CHUN KI WON (Durihana Church during sermon, through translator): Let us pray for the six people who have left North Korea today for freedom.

DE SAM LAZARO: Several in this prayer group in Seoul are recent arrivals. We were asked not to show their faces to protect family still in North Korea. These women linked up with the Durihana church after escaping first to China.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1 (through translator): The woman who helped me escape had heard of Pastor Chun. We found the Web site and made a request for help.

DE SAM LAZARO: Durihana has operatives in China, Mongolia and several southeast Asian countries. We were asked not to mention this one for fear of antagonizing the host government. That's already happened in China, where Durihana's pastor, Chun Ki Won, spent eight months in prison. China strongly opposes aid to North Korean defectors.

Rev.
WON (through translator): They are leaving for China in search of food, but the Chinese government sees them as criminals. So China sends those defectors back, and as a result these people are sometimes executed, imprisoned.

DE SAM LAZARO: Some analysts worry that activities like Durihana's are encouraging defections and complicating the politics in what remains one of the world's most militarized places.

Photo of SuhProfessor
JEONG MIN SUH (Yonsei University, through translator): The South Korean government is very sensitive about annoying the North Korean government. And it is also worrying about possible conflict with neighboring countries, including China, on the diplomatic front. The general mentality among the public and Christians is as long as such activities don't go overboard, it's okay. However, there are cases like some so-called relief teams who secretly enter the North and bring North Korean residents to China or other Asian countries purposely or in a premeditated way that is not acceptable.

DE SAM LAZARO: Pastor Chun insists he serves only those who've already escaped North Korea. The church's main goal, he says, is an evangelized, reunified Korea.

Rev.
WON (through translator): The name Durihana comes from the Bible. It means two become one.

DE SAM LAZARO: When that day comes to the Korean peninsula, Durihana can count on an army of North Korean apostles.

Photo of Old Missionary
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2 (through translator): When the two Koreas become unified, I also want to go back to my hometown. I want to do some church missionary things for my own village.

DE SAM LAZARO: About 10,000 North Koreans have now resettled in the South -- some 600 with the assistance of this church alone: missionaries Durihana hopes one day to dispatch not to distant countries but to the land of their birth.

For RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, this is Fred de Sam Lazaro in Seoul, South Korea.

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