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Delirium's Brother
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 Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:56 am Post subject: Korean Catholics and divorce |
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Someone told me recently that the Korean divorce rate is 50%. Is that the right number? Does anyone know how Korea Catholics and the Korean Catholic church view divorce and remarriage. Is it the same as the Vatican? I imagine it is... but I'm just curious if anyone has any information. This calls for broad generalization, I know...
Similarily, does anyone know whether there existed institutional structure dealing with divorce in pre-Christian Korea? Was divorce common then? Or even possible? |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:25 am Post subject: Re: Korean Catholics and divorce |
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| Delirium's Brother wrote: |
Someone told me recently that the Korean divorce rate is 50%. Is that the right number? Does anyone know how Korea Catholics and the Korean Catholic church view divorce and remarriage. Is it the same as the Vatican? I imagine it is... but I'm just curious if anyone has any information. This calls for broad generalization, I know...
Similarily, does anyone know whether there existed institutional structure dealing with divorce in pre-Christian Korea? Was divorce common then? Or even possible? |
Hmm, well, it's possible that the number of Korean-Catholics is small enough that they don't really puff up those numbers. The last statistic I saw on religion was 30 buddhist/30 christian/30 agnostic. What they 30% christian is made of, they don't say. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:19 am Post subject: Re: Korean Catholics and divorce |
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| jdog2050 wrote: |
| The last statistic I saw on religion was 30 buddhist/30 christian/30 agnostic. What they 30% christian is made of, they don't say. |
One I saw a while back had it as something like 20% Buddhist, 30% Christian and about 22% catholic. They distinguish Christians and Catholics here. (I've certainly heard people say "I'm not a Christian, I'm a Catholic" and other surprising comments..
(and lots of agnostics and atheists and cults and others..) |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| Who ever knew a religious person to follow the tenets of their religion? |
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denistron
Joined: 21 Oct 2006
Location: Busan
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Weird.
I heard the vatican doesn't really except the korean branch as part of the Christian church. But that oculd have been China. Anyone hear of this? |
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dalpengi
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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Weird.
I heard the vatican doesn't really except the korean branch as part of the Christian church. But that oculd have been China. Anyone hear of this? |
No, that�s China since it�s the government that appoints the cardinals. There is a branch of the catholic church which is faithful to the Vatican.
The last pope was in Korea twice I think and was highly regarded because he uttered couple sentences in Korean, probably something to do with kimchi, curing power and God. |
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