Talk:Religion in South Korea

Buddhist are persecuted by Christians?

I don't know wheter it's true or not, but it's not NPOV und the sources are not very reliable.

THere arent any sources for anything in this article could someone pleasse add more? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.145.63.237 (talk) 06:21, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's no such "persecution" anymore, but Korean Christians were highly intolerate of Buddhism, and to some degree still are. There is physical evidence in various regions throughout Korea, particularly in the mountains where Buddhist sites are most prominent; however, I'll try to locate some literary evidence, that is if it's actually necessary for the article. --Bentonia School (talk) 13:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics controversy

So much edit wars about numbers. I don't know anything about the issue, but I propose to write your claims here. Write your numbers and any comments here, please. It's better then anonymous changing of numbers. 0xFFFF (talk) 03:17, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I want a solid source. About.com suggests very different numbers - 49% Christian, 47% Buddhist - so we need a solid figure and a solid source, that primarily being the Korean government. --Bentonia School (talk) 13:57, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've also seen very different numbers for #s of Chondogyo followers, eg http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=shm&sid1=103&oid=003&aid=0003273705 hope this can be clarified.

96.237.232.7 (talk) 20:45, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Christianity in Korea

"Religion in South Korea is dominated by the traditional Buddhist faith and a large but declining Christian population". An alleged proof of this is a reference where we have one sentence about it: "in the 1990s church growth in South Korea reached a plateau and membership, particularly among young people, is now declining at up to five per cent per year."[1] Well I don't know from where these informations come from, but this is just an ordinary lie. Reliable sources, such as Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which base on korean National Census Bureau, show us somewhat different picture, depicting steady growth of christian community in recent years.[2] Ammon86 (talk) 10:13, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I note that the statistics given for the total population percentages of Protestants and Catholics do not match from the opening section to the section on Christianity in Korea. These need to be verified and fixed.134.154.240.39 (talk)

Section on Unification Church

This seems to be mostly uncited and not really neutral in point of view. I would also question why such a long paragraph is needed when the Unification Church has only a few thousand members in Korea. Borock (talk) 22:48, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The section seems to be copied from here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.24.163.189 (talk) 00:29, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the article seems to be copied from the same source. I tagged it as a copyright violation. Borock (talk) 02:32, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rather than deleting the article, it would be better to find the date where the copyrighted material was introduced and delete from there, forward. If you can find it, we can selectively delete. --B (talk) 03:44, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I found it. Many thanks to WikiWitchWest (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for introducing the text block copied from this source. Sadly, everything else he wrote needs to be checked too. --B (talk) 03:48, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'm in error, this text is public domain text from the CIA fact book. See [3]. As a publication of the US government, it is public domain and we can use it to our heart's content. --B (talk) 03:58, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. My mistake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.24.163.189 (talk) 13:49, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Me too. I am adding some references to the section. Borock (talk) 14:17, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(outdent) There is also this sentence: "Moon, for example, has arranged marriages for his younger followers; United States television audiences were treated some years ago to a mass ceremony at which several hundred young "Moonies" were married." A Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church was not broadcast over public TV, but video links were provided so that couples in remote locations could take part. I wonder what else the CIA has gotten wrong over the years. :-) I will change the sentence to make it more informative.Steve Dufour (talk) 19:49, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Korean Orthodox Church

It needs to be mentioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.33.10.214 (talk) 22:49, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]