Religion in Korea
Different types of religions are practiced in different part of Korea Buddhism, Confucianism, Korean shamanism; Taoism and Christianity are some of the religions. My partner doesn’t practice any religion, he used to be Christian and he stopped practicing it for his personal reason, now he is an atheist. Religion is big part of the society. Most part of the population is Christian. My partner doesn’t pray at all, but his family friend pray for him these shows how religion is the most important thing.
At every scenic spot, there is a Buddhist monastery, and most of the nation’s tangible cultural assets are Buddhist. Yet when entering any Korean city, one is immediately impressed by the number of Protestant churches. Only few Koreans have embraced the Islamic beliefs. However, a large mosque near It’aewon in Seoul is frequented by many foreigners in Korea. Since my partner doesn’t have religion there isn’t much to discuss about his religion, he has his personal reason for not having a religion he doesn’t want to share. But his parents are Christians
I found it interesting reading you blog about this since I had to switch partners and my partner is from Korea also. From her point of view Buddhism is more popular then Christianity. She didn’t practice anything her self, but she was raised by parents who practice Buddhism. Do you think that since they have different backgrounds that they believe the practice they were raised up around is more popular? Or do you think they one or the other partner is giving the wrong information? I tend to think it’s the different backgrounds.
So I think that your partner was either unclear to you how they practice religion in Korea or that you were not asking them the right kinds of questions. Yes your partner is now an atheist, but wouldn’t it have been prudent to ask what kinds of things they did to celebrate their faith when they were Christian? It just seems that you are lacking slightly on the informational section because you would think someone growing up with that many religions surrounding them would have more information on those different religions just by the contact of such a collection.
Wow, I did not know that Christianity was the most practiced religion in Korea. I like that your approach is somewhat in the form of an interview. This helps to keep it somewhat informative. Although it appeared that your partner did not have a lot to talk about because he not religious, I learned quite a bit because I discovered that religion plays a big role in Korean culture.